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\nThe state’s high court upheld the firing of a former Louisville Metro Police officer who lied on the search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s apartment.<\/p>\n
\nThe state’s high court upheld the firing of a former Louisville Metro Police officer who lied on the search warrant for Breonna Taylor’s apartment.<\/p>\n
Joshua Jaynes appealed his termination to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Jaynes prepared the search warrant that led officers to Taylor’s apartment in March of 2020.<\/p>\n
Jaynes wrote in the search warrant affidavit, under oath, that Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, was receiving packages at her apartment on Springfield Drive and said he confirmed the information through the U.S. postal inspector, one of the key justifications for the warrant.<\/p>\n
In May 2020, a U.S. postal inspector in Louisville said Metro police did not use his office to verify that information.<\/p>\n
Jaynes has admitted he never spoke to the postal inspector.<\/p>\n
Through later proceedings, Jaynes also admitted he did not directly verify any information with a postal inspector. <\/p>\n
The Court of Appeals upheld his firing, specifically citing the false information he provided for the warrant.<\/p>\n
Detective Brett Hankison, along with Detective Jon Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove, with LMPD’s Criminal Interdiction Division, burst into Taylor’s Springfield Drive apartment around 1 a.m. March 13 to serve the search warrant. Taylor was inside the apartment with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.<\/p>\n
Taylor, 26, was shot six times and died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Walker thought they were being robbed, according to his attorney, and fired at officers when they rushed in, hitting Mattingly in the leg.<\/p>\n
Jaynes also faces several federal charges for his actions. Justice Department prosecutors accused him of lying on the warrant and violating constitutional rights.<\/p>\n
They also allege Jaynes attempted to cover it up through a conspiracy to falsify records and make false statements to federal investigators. <\/p>\n
The next hearing ahead of that federal trial is scheduled for February.
\nSource: WDRB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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