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AG agrees to release grand jury tapes in Breonna Taylor case
Kentucky’s attorney general has agreed to release the recordings of the secret grand jury proceeding that considered charges against three officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna TaylorBy DYLAN LOVAN Associated PressSeptember 29, 2020, 1:08 PM• 2 min readLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney general has agreed to release the recordings of the secret grand…

Kentucky’s attorney unique has agreed to release the recordings of the important thing mountainous jury continuing that regarded as prices against three officers thinking about the fatal taking pictures of Breonna Taylor
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DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press
September 29, 2020, 1: 08 PM
2 min read
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky’s attorney unique has agreed to release the recordings of the important thing mountainous jury continuing that regarded as prices against three officers thinking about the fatal taking pictures of Breonna Taylor.
Licensed knowledgeable Fashioned Daniel Cameron agreed to the discharge hours after a member of the mountainous jury sued to enjoy the narrative of the proceedings opened to the public.
Cameron additionally said in a assertion that the superb price he urged to the mountainous jury used to be wanton endangerment. He had beforehand declined to supply info on what prices prosecutors introduced to the mountainous jury to preserve shut into consideration when it met final week.

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Become a founding memberFinal week, the mountainous jury in Louisville issued prices against undoubtedly one of many officers for endangering neighbors of Taylor who had bullets fired into their dwelling. No longer undoubtedly one of many the officers had been charged within the killing of Taylor, who used to be shot 5 instances after officers knocked down her door to relief a narcotics warrant serving a warrant on March 13.
Cameron said final week that two of the officers, Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, had been justified in firing their weapons because Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, had fired at them.
“Our prosecutors presented all of the proof, despite the indisputable fact that the proof supported that Sgt. Mattingly and Det. Cosgrove had been justified in their use of power after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker,” Cameron said within the assertion. “For that reason, the superb price urged used to be wanton endangerment.”
On Monday, a mountainous juror, who used to be now not identified, filed a court docket circulation asking a gain to release the narrative of the mountainous jury proceedings.
Cameron said in agreeing to the discharge of the recordings that the mountainous jury is intended to be a “secretive body.”
“It’s apparent that the public hobby on this case isn’t going to allow that to happen,” Cameron said.

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