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Breonna Taylor: LMPD detective fired for warrant fails to win job back

The Police Merit Board in Louisville voted 4-0 to uphold the January firing of Joshua Jaynes, a former detective.

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Myles Cosgrove, the officer found by the FBI to have fired the fatal shot, was also terminated in January.

Brett Hankison was fired in June 2020 for firing into Taylor's apartment from outside through a window and an obscured screen door.

Cosgrove's hearing date has not yet been set.

Hankison's hearing won't take place until after his criminal trial on three counts of wanton endangerment has concluded, likely in 2022.
 
A Louisville attorney has filed suit against the Louisville Metro Police Department, alleging the public was given “misinformation” about whether body camera video exists from the night Breonna Taylor died in March 2020.

Attorney Sam Aguiar filed the lawsuit, claiming LMPD is withholding public records like additional body camera footage.

The lawsuit claims Aguiar’s office filed a request for audit trail logs for several officers on scene from LMPD in June 2020. Aguiar’s office is suggesting those logs have the additional body camera footage along with all the data surrounding the video recordings.

LMPD was allegedly asked for three weeks to gather the logs but has not yet provided them. The lawsuit is asking a judge to order LMPD to turn over the requested information.


Lawsuit claims LMPD has more body cam footage from night Breonna Taylor was killed
 
Attorney Steve Romines, who represents Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s former boyfriend, argued in a recent court hearing that officers have acknowledged using their personal phones for work and he believes “there is a conspiracy in this case” among police involved in planning and executing the raid...

LMPD denied having the information, though Romines and Moore filed documents showing the Kentucky Attorney General’s office, which presented the case to a grand jury, turned the evidence back over to police after the investigation concluded.

Louisville judge blocks city's effort to withhold personal cell phones of officers in Breonna Taylor raid | In-depth | wdrb.com
 
Breonna Taylor: Ex-LMPD officer Brett Hankison asks for reduced bond

An attorney for Brett Hankison has filed a motion asking a judge to reduce the former Louisville Metro Police detective's $15,000 cash bail bond.

Attorney Stew Mathews wrote in a motion filed Tuesday that Hankison has been "unable to find gainful employment."

The trial date is currently set for Feb. 1, 2022, in Jefferson County. It was previously set for Aug. 31 but was pushed back because of logistical challenges created by COVID-19.
 
Ex-Louisville cop admits hitting kneeling Breonna Taylor protester

Former Louisville Metro Police Department officer Cory Evans pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a felony committed while on the job, admitting he struck a kneeling protester in the back of the head with a riot stick.

Evans, 33 of Sellersburg, Indiana, was charged June 9 with deprivation of rights under color of law for the incident, which took place around May 31, 2020, in the early days of widespread protests over the death of Breonna Taylor.

District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings will sentence Evans at 10 a.m. Nov. 23.
 
Prosecutors recommend probation for Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend

Prosecutors have recommended probation in a plea deal for Jamarcus Glover, the man whose drug dealing led Louisville police to the home of Breonna Taylor in March 2020.

Prosecutors have agreed to drop most of the charges he faced and are recommending up to 8 years of probation.

He is scheduled to be sentenced next month.
 
Officer involved in Breonna Taylor raid gets new book deal

The conservative media company Daily Wire is starting a publishing division called DW Books.

The company will publish a book by former Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly titled, "The Fight for Truth: The Inside Story Behind The Breonna Taylor Tragedy."

Tennessee-based Post Hill Press, whose books are distributed by Simon & Schuster, originally said they would publish Mattingly's book.

Hours later, the publishing company reverted, saying they would not be distributing the book.

“Simon & Schuster was too afraid to tell his (Mattingly’s) story, but we’re not,” DW Books Vice President of Publishing Alyssa Cordova told The Associated Press.
 
Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend is sentenced on drug charges (wave3.com)

The investigators believed Glover was using Taylor’s address to receive drugs through the mail. That part of the investigation has now been debated and contested, with conflicting testimonies about whether he was in fact receiving packages there.

The FBI still has an open case on the circumstances surrounding Taylor’s death
 
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Louisville Police Merit Board votes to uphold firing of Myles Cosgrove. Cosgrove was determined to be the officer that killed Taylor. 4-2 was vote. @WDRBNews
 
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Kentucky task force recommends search warrant changes after Breonna Taylor's death

The Search Warrant Task Force, assembled by state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, unveiled a series of recommendations in its final report. The guidelines include additional training for officers, a centralized electronic database that allows the public to track the number of warrants executed in each zip code, and other safety provisions.
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This article repeatedly states that the Taylor warrant was issued as a "no-knock" warrant. But it fails to state that it was not executed as a no-knock. Once on the scene the officers sensing no danger, elected to go ahead and knock. Ironically, it was that decision that led to the tragedy. Had they served it as a no-knock and entered immediately, Walker perhaps would not have had time to get his gun, thus no shooting.
 
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Jury selection begins Friday when around 250 potential jurors will be summoned and given a questionnaire. Some of those jurors will then be instructed to return Feb. 1, for individual questioning, with general jury selection set to begin Feb. 22.

Once a jury and alternates are chosen, the trial will begin and is expected to last into March.

Breonna Taylor case: Ex-Louisville cop goes to trial for shooting
 
Jury selection might take some time, but I can't imagine the trial itself will be very long. The facts as they related to Hankison aren't all that complicated.
 
Citing Unexpected Surgery, Jury Selection In Brett Hankison’s Trial Is Delayed - LEO Weekly

The opening of former LMPD Detective Brett Hankison’s wanton endangerment trial has been delayed until Thursday, Feb. 3.

Hankison’s trial was set to begin on Tuesday morning, with the questioning of 250 potential jurors getting underway. But on Tuesday, Judge Ann Bailey Smith said Hankison had undergone a minor, unexpected surgery and was unable to be there that day.
 
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