Ken Kolker

4 days ago | woodtv.com | Ken Kolker

WEBBER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Guards and medical staff have started training at the private prison that is about to reopen to house some of the growing number of illegal immigrants detained by the Trump administration. While local officials said it will boost the economy, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union worry about how the immigrants will be treated.

4 days ago | yahoo.com | Ken Kolker

WEBBER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Guards and medical staff have started training at the private prison that is about to reopen to house some of the growing number of immigrants in the country illegally detained by the Trump administration. While local officials said it will boost the economy, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union worry about how the immigrants will be treated.

2 weeks ago | woodtv.com | Ken Kolker

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2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ken Kolker

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A member of the jury that couldn’t reach a verdict in the Christopher Schurr murder trial said race never came up in the deliberations, that Schurr helped himself by taking the stand and that there was one main holdout that kept the former officer from being acquitted. That holdout, he told Target 8 in an exchange of emails, was the jury foreperson — the only Black jury member on the 12-person jury. Schurr’s defense team confirmed that.

1 month ago | woodtv.com | Rachel Van Gilder |Ken Kolker |Brittany Flowers

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A jury says it cannot reach a verdict in the case of a former Grand Rapids police officer who was accused of murder after he shot and killed a man following a traffic stop three years ago. The jury deliberated for more than 20 hours before telling the judge Thursday it was hopelessly deadlocked in the case of Christopher Schurr in the death of Patrick Lyoya.