Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany were accused of lying on document used to enter Taylor’s house on night of shooting
A federal judge has dismissed charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying the warrant used to enter Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night police shot her to death.
Charles Simpson, a US district judge, issued a one-page ruling on Friday throwing out charges against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, two former officers involved in crafting the Taylor warrant.
Federal prosecutors in the Trump administration asked a judge recently to dismiss charges against the former officers “in the interest of justice”. Prosecutors noted that the court had already removed some felony charges against Jaynes and Meany in previous proceedings.
Merrick Garland, the former Biden administration US attorney general, announced charges against Jaynes and Meany in 2022 in a high-profile news conference in Louisville, where Garland said: “Breonna Taylor should still be alive today.” Garland said the officers at the scene who shot Taylor, 26, were unaware of the “false and misleading statements” in the warrant.
