Patrick Lyoya & America's Broken Probable Cause Standard

Yesterday a MI trial judge ruled that probable cause existed to bring Police Officer Christopher Schurr to trial on a charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death of violently non-compliant suspect Patrick Lyoya. Lyoya was shot and killed by Officer Schurr while the two men fought over control of the officer's Taser following Lyoya's lawful traffic stop. We'll cover that entire probable cause finding by the judge during the public portion of today's show, in particular di...

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Attorney Andrew F. Branca's weekly plain-English legal educational News and Question & Answer show on American use-of-force law--self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property, to enable law-abiding people to make better informed, more confident, more decisive, and more lawful use-of-force decisions.