The grand jury deciding charges against three officers involved in the March death of Breonna Taylor was not given the opportunity to consider homicide, an anonymous member of the jury said Tuesday.... [+]“The grand jury was not presented any charges other than the three Wanton Endangerment charges,” the juror said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon, shortly after a judge approved a motion from the juror to make the case’s proceedings public.
The juror said that questions were asked about additional charges but “the grand jury was told there would be none because the prosecutors didn’t feel they could make them stick.” National outrage was sparked by the jury’s failure in September to charge any of the three officers for shooting 20 rounds into Taylor’s apartment on March 13, fatally striking the sleeping 26-year-old, while charging just one, Brett Hankinson, over shots fired into a neighbor’s apartment.
When announcing the decision, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron seemed to pass blame to the grand jury for results he acknowledged would anger many. However, Cameron later admitted that he did not present any murder charges to the grand jury that was empaneled to hear Taylor’s case,Per the juror’s testimony, this is not true.“After hearing the Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s press conference, and with my duty as a grand juror being over, my duty as a citizen compelled action,” wrote the juror. “The grand jury did not have homicide offenses explained to them. The grand jury never heard anything about those laws.
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