The trial for murder of the former tree of the first

Grand Rapids, Mi – April’s trial for the former sergeant of the State Police. Brian Keely, accused of the murder of a fugitive fleeing, has been postponed.

Keely, 51, was scheduled to be tried in the United States District Court in Lansing on April 21 for the death of Samuel Sterling, 25.

Judge Hala Jarbou on Tuesday, February 25, postponed the trial without a new date. Instead, a probative hearing will be held on the original trial date.

The case is being judged in a federal court because Keely was working with a federal fugitive workforce on April 12 when his police vehicle hit Sterling, which immobilized him against a Burger King building.

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The Office of the State Attorney General Dana Nessel accused Keely of second degree murder and involuntary homicide. His office has tried without success that the case will go back to the Kent County Circuit Court.

The federal judge determined that Keely was acting as a federal officer.

Keely was part of a fugitive team, under the service of US sheriffs., Looking for Sterling with outstanding arrest orders. The fugitive team saw Sterling at a service station about 52nd Street SE and Eastern Avenue in Kentwood.

Sterling ran when he saw the police, who chased him on foot. Keely followed him in the unmarked police vehicle and then turned to Sterling, which inspired him in the Burger King building.

Sterling died later that day.

Defensor lawyer Marc Curtis says that Keely had immunity to state prosecution because he was doing a legal act. Prosecutors argue that Keely’s “actions are plagued by malice and another criminal intention …”.

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Last month, Grand Rapid police chief Eric Winstrom said Sterling was part of a conspiracy behind November 6, 2023, killing Darryl Yarber, 32, in a neighborhood of Burton Heights

Sterling’s brother, Dominike Sterling, 33, and Coacusado Tyriq Bettison, 26, are accused of open murder.

Jarbou, the federal judge, denied this week a motion of prosecutors to limit the testimony of judgment on criminal accusations against Sterling. His supposed role in the homicide was not included in the motion of the Prosecutor’s Office.

Prosecutors can refilar a motion.

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Meanwhile, former Grand Rapid police officer, Christopher Schur, 34, is scheduled for trial on April 4, 2022, killing Patrick Lyoya, 26.

Schur is accused of second degree murder and will be tried in the Kent County Circuit Court. Schur shot Lyoya, a black motorist, on the back of the head after a long fight for the control of the officer’s taser.

Lyoya was arrested on the southeast side of the city because its plate did not match the vehicle.

Both Keely and Schur are free in Bond.