A federal choose has dismissed main felony expenses towards two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor‘s door, the place she was fatally shot.

U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson dominated that Taylor’s authorized explanation for dying was attributable to a gunshot fired by her boyfriend, not a defective warrant.

The ruling dismissed felony expenses that had been introduced by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 throughout a high-profile go to to Louisville. The expenses had been towards former Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sergeant Kyle Meany.

Garland had accused the 2, who weren’t current throughout the raid, of submitting a false affidavit to look Taylor’s house forward of the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s raid. They had been additionally accused of making a “false cover story in an attempt to escape responsibility for their roles in preparing the warrant affidavit that contained false information,” in response to court docket paperwork.

The expenses carried a most sentence of life in jail.

However, Simpson wrote in his Tuesday ruling that “there is no direct link between the warrantless entry and Taylor’s death,” successfully decreasing the civil rights violation expenses towards Jaynes and Meany to misdemeanors.

The choose didn’t dismiss a conspiracy cost towards Jaynes and one other cost towards Meany, who’s accused of creating false statements to investigators.

In 2020, police broke down the door of Taylor’s residence—the place the 26-year-old emergency room technician lived—when her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired his gun on the officers, believing an intruder was breaking into the house. In response, police fired again, and a bullet fatally struck Taylor.

Simpson concluded that Walker’s “conduct became the proximate, or legal, cause of Taylor’s death.”

“While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor’s death, it also alleges that Walker disrupted those events when he decided to open fire” on the police, Simpson wrote.

Immediately after the incident, Walker was arrested and confronted tried homicide expenses for firing a gun at law enforcement officials. However, the cost was later dismissed.

A 3rd former officer charged in the federal warrant case, Kelly Goodlett, pleaded responsible in 2022 to a conspiracy cost and is predicted to testify towards Jaynes and Meany at their trials.

A fourth former officer, Brett Hankison, was additionally charged by federal prosecutors in 2022 with endangering the lives of Taylor, Walker, and a few of her neighbors. He is alleged to have “willfully used unconstitutionally excessive force … when he fired his service weapon into Taylor’s apartment through a covered window and covered glass door.”

Hankison, who fired 10 photographs into Taylor’s house, will face a brand new civil rights trial in October after a jury was deadlocked in his preliminary trial.