{"id":2330317,"date":"2024-08-23T20:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T00:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-rules-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-not-faulty-warrant-is-the-legal-cause-of-her-death\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T00:30:28","slug":"federal-judge-rules-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-not-faulty-warrant-is-the-legal-cause-of-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-rules-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-not-faulty-warrant-is-the-legal-cause-of-her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Rules Breonna Taylor&#8217;s Boyfriend, Not Faulty Warrant, Is the Legal Cause of Her Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffederal-judge-rules-breonna-taylors-boyfriend-not-faulty-warrant-is-the-legal-cause-of-her-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2330317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal \u200bjudge has dismissed significant felony charges against two \u200dformer Louisville police officers, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, who were accused of falsifying a \u200bwarrant that led to \u2063the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Judge Charles\u200d Simpson ruled that\u200b the actions of Taylor&#8217;s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who fired a shot\u200d at the \u2063police during the raid,\u200d were the legal cause of her death, rather than the questionable \u2063warrant. This ruling reduced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-throws-out-felony-charges-against-ex-louisville-police-officers-who-shot-breonna-taylor-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Court throws out felony charges against ex-Louisville police officers who shot Breonna Taylor - Washington Examiner\">civil rights violation charges<\/a>, which\u200b could have resulted in life imprisonment, to misdemeanors. However, conspiracy charges against Jaynes\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-county-trump-case-ray-smith-becomes-first-defendant-to-enter-plea\/\" title=\"Ray Smith, the first defendant in the Fulton County Trump case, pleads guilty.\">false \u200dstatement charges<\/a> against Meany remain.\u2064 The judge noted that Walker&#8217;s behavior interfered with the \u2064chain of \u200bevents that led to Taylor&#8217;s death. Meanwhile, the U.S. Justice \u2064Department is reviewing the judge&#8217;s decision and considering its next steps, while a third\u200c officer \u200dinvolved, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and is expected to testify against the other two.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>A federal judge has thrown out major felony charges against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor&rsquo;s door before they fatally shot her.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson&rsquo;s ruling declared that the actions of Taylor&rsquo;s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid, were the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Federal charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/high-profile-dem-funnels-thousands-dollars-husband-private-security-doesnt-license\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile<\/a> visit to Louisville. Garland accused Jaynes and Meany, who were not present at the raid, of knowing they had falsified part of the warrant and put Taylor in a dangerous situation by sending armed officers to her apartment.<\/p>\n<p>But Simpson wrote in the Tuesday ruling that &ldquo;there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor&rsquo;s death.&rdquo; Simpson&rsquo;s ruling effectively reduced the civil rights violation charges against Jaynes and Meany, which had carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>The judge declined to dismiss a conspiracy charge against Jaynes and another charge against Meany, who is accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">making false statements<\/a> to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>When police carrying a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/strangers-take-homeless-man-live-despite-warrants-drug-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug warrant<\/a> broke down Taylor&rsquo;s door in March 2020, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a shot that struck an officer in the leg. Walker said he believed an intruder was bursting in. Officers returned fire, striking and killing Taylor, a 26-year-old woman, in her hallway.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson concluded that Walker&rsquo;s &ldquo;conduct became the proximate, or legal, cause of Taylor&rsquo;s death.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor&rsquo;s death, it also alleges that (Walker) disrupted those events when he decided to open fire&rdquo; on the police, Simpson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Walker was initially arrested and charged with attempted murder of a police officer, but that charge was later dropped after his attorneys argued Walker did not know he was firing at police.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Justice Department said in an  that it &ldquo;is reviewing the judge&rsquo;s decision and assessing next steps.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A third former officer charged in the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/signing-political-death-warrant-3-house-republicans-consider-siding-dems-thwart-mccarthy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warrant<\/a> case, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty in 2022 to a conspiracy charge and is expected to testify against Jaynes and Meany at their trials.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors alleged Jaynes, who drew up the Taylor warrant, had claimed to Goodlett days before the warrant was served that he had &ldquo;verified&rdquo; from a postal inspector that a suspected drug dealer was receiving packages at Taylor&rsquo;s apartment. But Goodlett knew that was false and told Jaynes the warrant did not yet have enough information connecting Taylor to criminal activity, prosecutors said. She added a paragraph saying the suspected drug dealer was using Taylor&rsquo;s apartment as his current address, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, when the Taylor shooting was attracting national headlines, Jaynes and Goodlett met in Jaynes&rsquo; garage to &ldquo;get on the same page&rdquo; before Jaynes talked to investigators about the Taylor warrant, court records said.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth former officer, Brett Hankison, was also charged by federal prosecutors in 2022 with endangering the lives of Taylor, Walker and some of her neighbors when he fired into Taylor&rsquo;s windows. A trial last year ended with a hung jury, but Hankison is scheduled to be retried on those charges in October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson ruled that the actions of Taylor&#8217;s boyfriend, who fired at police during the raid, were the legal cause of her death rather than an invalid warrant. The federal charges against former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sergeant Kyle Meany were announced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 during a notable visit to Louisville, where he claimed that Jaynes and Meany, who were not present during the raid, knew they had falsified parts of the warrant and endangered Taylor by sending armed officers to her home. However, Judge Simpson stated in his ruling on Tuesday that &#8220;there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor\u2019s death.&#8221; This decision effectively downgraded civil rights violation charges against Jaynes and Meany from felonies with potential life sentences to misdemeanors. The judge did not dismiss a conspiracy charge against Jaynes or another charge against Meany for allegedly making false statements to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>When police executed a drug warrant at Taylor&#8217;s apartment in March 2020, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired a shot believing an intruder was breaking in, hitting an officer in the leg. Officers returned fire, killing 26-year-old Taylor as she stood in her hallway. Simpson concluded that Walker\u2019s actions became the proximate cause of Taylor\u2019s death: \u201cWhile the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events leading to Taylor\u2019s death, it also states that (Walker) disrupted those events when he decided to open fire\u201d on law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Initially arrested for attempted murder of a police officer after firing at them, Walker&#8217;s charge was later dropped when his attorneys argued he did not know he was shooting at police officers. The U.S. Justice Department has stated it is reviewing this ruling and considering its next steps.<\/p>\n<p>A third former officer involved in this case, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges last year and is expected to testify against Jaynes and Meany during their trials. Federal prosecutors allege that days before serving the warrant on Taylor&#8217;s apartment\u2014drafted by Jaynes\u2014he falsely claimed to Goodlett he had confirmed with a postal inspector about packages being sent there by a suspected drug dealer; however, Goodlett knew this information was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later\u2014when national attention focused on Breonna Taylor&#8217;s shooting\u2014Jaynes met with Goodlett privately before speaking with investigators regarding their involvement with her case.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally charged by federal prosecutors is Brett Hankison for endangering Breonna Taylor along with Walker and some neighbors when he fired into her apartment windows; his trial ended last year without reaching a verdict but is set for retrial this October<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2330318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/6876fc8404424249a197e80902fbf3ae-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[10653,39129,33791,36794],"class_list":["post-2330317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-boyfriend","tag-breonna-taylor","tag-federal-judge","tag-legal-ruling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/6876fc8404424249a197e80902fbf3ae-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}