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U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson ruled that the actions of her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who shot at an officer and hit his leg as they broke down the couple’s door because of a drug warrant, caused Taylor’s death. The previous ruling was that a bad warrant caused her death.Attorney General Merrick Garland announced federal charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany in 2022.
But Simpson wrote in the Tuesday ruling that “there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor’s death.” Simpson’s ruling effectively reduced the civil rights violation charges against Jaynes and Meany, which carried a maximum sentence of life in prison, to misdemeanors. The judge declined to dismiss a conspiracy charge against Jaynes and another charge against Meany, who is accused of making false statements to investigators.“While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor’s death, it also alleges that disrupted those events when he decided to open fire” on the police, Simpson wrote.A third officer pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in 2022 and is expected to testify against Jaynes and Meany at their trials.
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