DOJ seeks to drop case against ex-police officers charged in Breonna Taylor's death

The Justice Department connected Friday moved to disregard its transgression lawsuit against 2 erstwhile Louisville constabulary officers who were facing civilian rights charges successful transportation with the shooting decease of Breonna Taylor.

In a tribunal filing Friday, lawyers from the Civil Rights Division said they are seeking to disregard the pending lawsuit against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany with prejudice, which means it could not beryllium revived successful the future. The justice has not yet ruled connected the motion.

The filing was signed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Robert Keenan and Acting Criminal Chief Katie Neff. No vocation prosecutors from the division's transgression conception signed the brief.

Breonna Taylor was changeable and killed by constabulary officers successful March 2020 during a botched constabulary raid astatine her home.

Both Jaynes and Meany were accused by the Justice Department of aiding and abetting the deprivation of Taylor's Fourth Amendment close to beryllium escaped from unreasonable searches and seizures.

A national tribunal connected 2 abstracted occasions successful 2023 and again successful 2025 struck the Justice Department's felony allegations against the 2 erstwhile officers, reducing them to misdemeanor color-of-law violations instead.