Federal prosecutors in Kentucky said they’ll retry a disgraced ex-Louisville cop over the 2020 death of Breonna Taylor during a botched police raid after a mistrial in the case last month. Brett Hankison, 47, faces civil rights violations in Taylor’s March 13, 2020, shooting death inside her Louisville apartment but dodged a conviction when the jury remained deadlocked after 20 hours of deliberations on Nov. 26. On Wednesday, prosecutors said they’ll try again, telling US District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings they’ll take him back to trial “sooner rather than later,”...

The Biden Department of Justice failed to get a conviction last month in the federal civil rights case against the former Louisville detective who returned fire during a drug raid when shot at by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend. Despite admitting ahead of the Nov. 17 mistrial that it would take "enormous resources ... to retry this case," federal prosecutors revealed this week they plan to refile charges against former Detective Brett Hankison. Louisville Metro Police Department narcotics detectives attempted to execute a "no-knock" search warrant around 12:43 a.m. on March 13,...

Federal prosecutors will attempt to retry a policeman involved in the Louisville no-knock raid of Breonna Taylor’s home in March 2020 that resulted in her death. The case of whether ex-officer Brett Hankinson used excessive force during the incident ended in a mistrial due to not reaching a unanimous decision by a jury in November. The 12-member jury, comprised mainly of white people, could not reach a unanimous verdict. However, the judge relayed that the deliberation room was intense, overhearing “elevated voices” that prompted security to enter. Despite calls from...

After the judge declared a mistrial in November, Brett Hankison, a former Louisville Metro Police Department detective who was charged for his involvement in Breonna Taylor’s death in 2020, is set for a civil rights trial, CNN reports. Stew Mathews and Ibrahim Farag, Hankinson’s attorneys, said they were informed by federal prosecutors that they would be refiling charges. The attorneys also stated that another status hearing is scheduled for January 24 and a trial date has been tentatively set for October 14. Jack Byrd, another one of Hankison’s attorneys said...

Brett Hankison, the former Louisville Metro Police Department detective federally charged in connection with Breonna Taylor’s 2020 death, will face a new civil rights trial after a jury last month reported it was deadlocked in his initial trial. The judge declared a mistrial in November after jurors told the court they could not reach a unanimous verdict. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors informed Hankison during a status hearing that they plan to refile charges, his attorneys, Stew Mathews and Ibrahim Farag, confirmed to CNN. Farag added he and his client “have...

In Kentucky, a judge declared a mistrial in the federal civil rights trial of the ex-Louisville police officer who fired his gun during the deadly 2020 raid on Breonna Taylor’s home. The jury deadlocked over whether to convict Brett Hankison, who was charged with using excessive force and violating the rights of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, her partner and Taylor’s next door neighbors, where some of the officer’s stray bullets ended up. Hankison faced a maximum sentence of life in prison. He was acquitted last year on three state counts of...

Jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on federal civil rights charges Thursday in the trial of a former Louisville police officer charged in the police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial. Brett Hankison was charged with using excessive force that violated the rights of Taylor, her boyfriend and her next-door neighbors. Hankison fired 10 shots into the Black woman's window and a glass door after officers came under fire during a flawed drug warrant search on March 13, 2020. Some of his shots...