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Monday the Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of a former Grand Rapids police officer charged with killing motorist Patrick Lyoya in 2022

The state could try to appeal the decision

Sixty-five-year-old Gregory Tucker argued that the DNA wasn’t sufficient on its own to convict him in the 2016 break-in near Detroit, citing U.S. Supreme Court rulings about evidence.

The State Appellate Defender Office filed a motion Friday claiming “new and compelling evidence” that a life-without-parole sentence for the teenager was not justified

Ethan Crumbley is serving a life sentence. James and Jennifer Crumbley both were convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

The trial took place in 2022, during the pandemic. The defense says the mask covered the mouth and nose and prevented attorneys, the judge and the jury from seeing the witness’s facial expressions

The Crumbleys hired their own attorneys to defend them in separate jury trials in the Oakland County Circuit Court. Their publicly funded appeals attorneys were assigned to them through the Michigan Appellate Assigned Counsel System

The Crumbley parents have 42 days after sentencing to submit the form requesting a publicly funded appellate lawyer

The Michigan Court of Appeals is standing by its ruling that ex-Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr should be tried for the murder of Black motorist Patrick Lyoya

An appeal from Sidney Powell and other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump was rejected by the Supreme Court