Like the deaths of other Black men at the hands of police, the Lyoya case prompted protests, with demonstrators chanting, “Justice for Patrick.”Second-degree murder in Michigan is a death caused by the defendant with malice and without justification or excuse.The judge Monday found there was no real question whether the officer’s actions caused Lyoya’s death with malice, ruling, “The only real debatable question here is whether defendant’s actions were justified under the law.”The prosecution presented probable cause to support the charge, Ayoub told the courtroom, describing his own role as a “very limited check” on prosecutors.“The reasonableness of those actions can hardly be fully and fairly judged by one person in a black robe with 20/20 vision of hindsight and from the comfortable and safe vantage point of the high perch of the armor-plated judge’s bench,” the judge told those who attended.“It is precisely, though, for this reason that questions of reasonableness and all questions of fact are determined by a jury after a full and fair trial.”Wearing a gray suit, Schurr did not visibly react to the decision.“The case will now rightfully move to trial, which is the next step in our pursuit for obtaining full and complete justice for the murder of Patrick Lyoya,” they said in a statement."