Overview

• A grand jury declined to indict Alvin Summers on a felony assault-on-officer charge, and prosecutors moved to dismiss the case without prejudice.
• The decision follows earlier no-bills in the cases of Sidney Reid and Sean Charles Dunn, which are now proceeding as misdemeanors.
• Summers’ lawyers wrote that jurors rejected an officer’s account, saying that conclusion was presumably informed by body‑camera video, though deliberations are secret.
• Such back-to-back no-bills are unusual in federal court, where indictments typically clear the low probable-cause standard.
• After a no-bill, prosecutors can seek a new grand jury, file misdemeanors by information, or dismiss without prejudice, leaving the door open to refile.