A judge in Kentucky has dismissed core charges against two former Louisville police officials involved in the raid that ended in Breonna Taylor's death.
The judge said Taylor’s death was triggered by the actions of her boyfriend, who opened fire when police arrived outside her Louisville apartment on March 13, 2020.
The mechanism cited in the case was Jaynes' draft of an allegedly false search warrant application, which Meany approved, that stated there was sufficient evidence tying Taylor’s residence to illicit drugs.Jaynes was also charged with conspiracy to cover up the search warrant's lack of a foundation by allegedly creating a supporting document after the fact and then lying to investigators; and Meany was charged with lying to federal investigators.
"The Court finds that the warrantless entry was not the actual cause of Taylor’s death," he wrote in his decision."The Court also concludes that the Death-Results charge requires proof of proximate cause and that allegations in this case show that the warrantless entry was not the proximate cause of Taylor’s death and even if it were, K.W.’s decision to open fire is the legal cause of her death, it being a superseding cause.
The charges related to covering up the allegedly false search warrant and lying to investigators will remain, according to the decision.
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