A federal resolve is dismissing felony bills in opposition to 2 officers who purchased the warrant to enter Breonna Taylor‘s home … with the resolve blaming Breonna’s boyfriend, and by no means the warrant, for inflicting her demise.

Here is the deal … in 2022, Detective Joshua Jaynes and Sgt. Kyle Meany have been charged with submitting a false affidavit to look Taylor’s home sooner than the raid, after which making a faux cowl story to avoid accountability after Taylor was killed by the raid.

They have been moreover charged with felonies for using a dangerous weapon to deprive Breonna of her Fourth Modification correct to defend herself in opposition to unreasonable search.

However, U.S. District Decide Charles Simpson says there isn’t any hyperlink between the warrantless entry and Breonna’s demise — claiming the speedy cause behind her demise was the actual fact her boyfriend Kenneth Walker shot at officers, who responded with lethal energy.

Dropping the weapons bills is giant victory for the officers, who might’ve gotten life sentences within the occasion that they’d been convicted.

Price noting, neither Jaynes or Meany have been actually on the raid.

Jaynes and Meany nonetheless aren’t out of the woods however … Meany faces one value of false assertion to federal investigators, whereas Jaynes has been charged with two counts of falsification of information, conspiracy to falsify knowledge and witness tampering.

Jaynes might rise as much as 40 years if convicted and Meany might get 5. They’ve every been fired from Louisville PD.

Taylor’s 2020 demise sparked outrage all through the nation, and contributed to widespread protests.

Two completely different detectives have been federally charged alongside Jaynes and Meany — former detectives Brett Hankison and Kelly Goodlett have been hit with diversified bills as properly. Goodlett reportedly pled accountable and is awaiting sentencing.