The trial of ex-Louisville police Detective Brett Hankison on charges that he violated the civil rights of Breonna Taylor and four others the night when she was killed by another officer during a raid gone bad has been pushed back two additional months.Expected to last three weeks, the trial was to begin Aug. 21, but on a defense motion, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings Wednesday reset it for Oct. 30.Hankison appeared with new counsel − Jack Byrd of Nashville, Tennessee, and Ibrahim A. Farag of Louisville. The defense told Jennings the government has turned over more than one million pages of evidence and it couldn't process them by August.More:Government demands defense keep some evidence secret in Breonna Taylor civil rights trialsByrd asked Jennings to postpone it until next spring but she said that was too far out.Hankison is charged with using excessive force by firing blindly into Taylor’s apartment on March 13, 2020, through a sliding glass door and a window covered by curtains. He was acquitted on state charges of wanton endangerment but charged federally last August.He is accused of violating the civil rights of Taylor, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker along with three neighbors, including a pregnant woman and 5-year-old child.What you should know:Which officers face federal charges in the Breonna Taylor caseMore:Ex-LMPD detective has wanton endangerment record expunged in Breonna Taylor caseHankison was fired in 2020 when then-interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder called the rounds he fired "a shock to the conscience." Hankison testified in Jefferson Circuit Court he was trying to protect two fellow detectives at the apartment’s front door, including Sgt. John Mattingly, who was shot in the leg by Walker who has said he thought the couple was being robbed. Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove returned fire and a bullet from Cosgrove’s gun hit Taylor, killing her.Also charged with federal civil rights charges were Sgt. Kyle Meany and Detectives Joshua Jaynes and Kelly Goodlett, for allegedly fabricating a warrant for the search of Taylor's apartment and other offensesGoodlett pleaded guilty and resigned while Meany, Jaynes and Hankison were fired.  Goodlett is expected to testify for the government against her former colleagues.No date has been set yet for their trial but U.S. Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III has set a pretrial conference for Tuesday.Breonna Taylor shooting: An 11-month timeline shows how her death changed Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The large volume of evidence collected in the Breonna Taylor case prompted a judge to push back the trial date for a former Kentucky police officer who fired into Taylor’s apartment during a deadly no-knock raid in 2020. Brett Hankison’s federal court trial will be a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Hankison for endangering Taylor and her next-door neighbors. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings moved Hankison’s trial back about two months to Oct. 30. Hankison’s attorneys said they need more time to process all the evidence. Hankison was indicted on federal charges in August. FOX28 Spokane©

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The large volume of evidence collected in the Breonna Taylor case prompted a judge on Wednesday to push back the trial date for a former Kentucky police officer who fired blindly into Taylor's apartment during the deadly no-knock raid on her apartment in 2020.The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Brett Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by police in Louisville. Taylor, who worked as an emergency medical technician, was shot multiple times during the raid. The warrant for the raid was later found to be flawed.U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings moved the trial back about two months to Oct. 30, after Hankison's lawyers asked for more time to process massive amounts of evidence turned over by federal prosecutors.Hankison was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department last year along with three other officers, one of whom has pleaded guilty to helping falsify the warrant used to enter Taylor's apartment on March 13, 2020. Taylor was killed in her hallway after officers broke down the door and Taylor's boyfriend fired a shot that struck a police sergeant. None of Hankison's shots hit Taylor.Her killing along with George Floyd's death at the hands of Minnesota police in 2020 ignited protests that summer around the country over racial injustice. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the federal indictments in the Taylor case in August, remarking that Taylor “should be alive today.”Hankison is the only officer who fired shots during the raid who has been charged in any court. Prosecutors determined that two other officers who fired and struck Taylor were justified in shooting back after Taylor's boyfriend fired at them. Hankison attorney Jack Byrd also told Jennings Wednesday that his team needs time to meet with use-of-force and crime scene experts to go over evidence.Hankison, 46, was acquitted in March of charges brought by state prosecutors for endangering Taylor's next-door neighbors with shots he fired into Taylor's apartment that went through her walls. Hankison retreated from the open doorway and fired 10 bullets into a sliding door and window on the side of Taylor’s apartment. The more recent federal charges accuse him of endangering neighbors along with Taylor and her boyfriend. Another former officer, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge, and is expected to testify in the cases against two more officers who were involved in crafting the Taylor warrant. Former detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany are charged with conspiring to deprive Taylor of her civil rights. Jaynes and Meany are set to be tried together on Oct. 25.Goodlett's guilty plea was moved from last year to Dec. 13, presumably after Jaynes and Meany's cases are finished.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The scheduled August trial of a former Louisville police officer charged with federal crimes in connection with the fatal raid on Breonna Taylor's home in 2020 has been delayed until Oct. 30.An attorney for Brett Hankison told U.S. District Court Judge Regina Edwards on Wednesday that prosecutors had turned over an "immense volume" of evidence and it would be "practically impossible" for the defense to be ready by this summer.Attorney Jack Byrd said prosecutors have turned over more than 1 million items of evidence."Obviously, it’s going to take awhile to go through that amount" and obtain the necessary experts and witnesses, Bryd said during a pre-trial conference hearing.Byrd suggested a trial date for spring 2024, but the prosecution objected, arguing the defense now has all of the evidence and a more modest delay should work.Edwards set the new trial date for Oct. 30. It is expected to last three weeks, with prosecutors saying they will use about two of those weeks to put on their case.Hankison is due back in federal court on May 17 for a status conference.Hankison was indicted in August on two charges of deprivation of rights for firing into a bedroom window in Taylor's apartment that was covered with blinds and a blackout curtain after "there was no longer a lawful objective justifying the use of deadly force," according to the indictment.He also faces charges for shooting through a wall of Taylor's apartment and into a neighboring unit, endangering three people, including a then-3-year-old boy.In a similar case, a jury in a state criminal case found Hankison not guilty on three counts of wanton endangerment last March stemming from the botched raid of Taylor's home.Three other former officers have also been federally charged for their involvement in the Taylor case: Kyle Meany, Kelly Goodlett and Joshua Jaynes.Jaynes, Meany and Hankison face a maximum sentence of life in prison. Goodlett has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy for knowingly including false information in the search warrant affidavit and then conspiring with Jaynes to cover it up.U.S. attorneys had already filed more than 300,000 pages of documents, dozens of video recordings and data from cellphones and GPS trackers, according to court documents. The prosecution told the judge Thursday that three more rounds of evidence have been provided more recently. Meany and Jaynes have hearings scheduled for next week. The two do not currently have trial dates scheduled. The officers face charges that include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction.The charges resulted from a federal investigation that, in part, looked at how police obtained the search warrant for Taylor's apartment, something a prior state investigation by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's office did not pursue. Cameron has said that aspect was part of the Justice Department's work.Jaynes and Meany are accused of drafting and approving "what they knew was a false affidavit to support a search warrant for Ms. Taylor's home," Assistant U.S. Attorney General Kristen Clarke has said. "That false affidavit set in motion events that led to Ms. Taylor's death when other LMPD officers executed that warrant."Taylor was inside the apartment with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, when police burst in early in the morning on March 13, 2020.Police were looking for money or drugs involving Jamarcus Glover, who was at the center of a narcotics probe by Louisville police. The warrant for Taylor's home was executed around the same time that police served other warrants on suspected drug houses in the city's west end — some 10 miles away.LMPD has claimed that while Jaynes obtained a "no-knock" warrant, police repeatedly knocked on Taylor's door and announced themselves before knocking it in.Walker has said he never heard police announce themselves and believed the couple was being robbed. He fired a shot, hitting former officer John Mattingly in the leg.Police responded with 32 shots, hitting Taylor six times. The 26-year-old died at the scene.No drugs were found in her home.The former detectives who fired the shots that struck Taylor — Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove — were not charged because they didn't know about the false information in the search warrant.Copyright 2023 WDRB Media. All Rights Reserved.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The large volume of evidence collected in the Breonna Taylor case prompted a judge on Wednesday to push back the trial date for a former Kentucky police officer who fired blindly into Taylor’s apartment during the deadly no-knock raid on her apartment in 2020. The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Brett Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by police in Louisville. Taylor, who worked as an emergency medical technician, was shot multiple times during the raid. The warrant for the raid was later found to be flawed. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings moved the trial back about two months to Oct. 30, after Hankison’s lawyers asked for more time to process massive amounts of evidence turned over by federal prosecutors. Hankison was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department last year along with three other officers, one of whom has pleaded guilty to helping falsify the warrant used to enter Taylor’s apartment on March 13, 2020. Taylor was killed in her hallway after officers broke down the door and Taylor’s boyfriend fired a shot that struck a police sergeant. None of Hankison’s shots hit Taylor. Her killing along with George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minnesota police in 2020 ignited protests that summer around the country over racial injustice. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the federal indictments in the Taylor case in August, remarking that Taylor “should be alive today.” Hankison is the only officer who fired shots during the raid who has been charged in any court. Prosecutors determined that two other officers who fired and struck Taylor were justified in shooting back after Taylor’s boyfriend fired at them. Hankison attorney Jack Byrd also told Jennings Wednesday that his team needs time to meet with use-of-force and crime scene experts to go over evidence. Hankison, 46, was acquitted in March of charges brought by state prosecutors for endangering Taylor’s next-door neighbors with shots he fired into Taylor’s apartment that went through her walls. Hankison retreated from the open doorway and fired 10 bullets into a sliding door and window on the side of Taylor’s apartment. The more recent federal charges accuse him of endangering neighbors along with Taylor and her boyfriend. Another former officer, Kelly Goodlett, has pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge, and is expected to testify in the cases against two more officers who were involved in crafting the Taylor warrant. Former detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany are charged with conspiring to deprive Taylor of her civil rights. Jaynes and Meany are set to be tried together on Oct. 25. Goodlett’s guilty plea was moved from last year to Dec. 13, presumably after Jaynes and Meany’s cases are finished. Copyright © 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.

Prosecutors are trying for a second time to convict Brett Hankison for his actions during the 2020 search warrant raid. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The large volume of evidence collected in the Breonna Taylor case prompted a judge on Wednesday to push back the trial date for a former Kentucky police officer who fired blindly into Taylor's apartment during the deadly no-knock raid on her apartment in 2020.  It will be the second attempt by prosecutors to convict Brett Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by police. Attorneys will meet to discuss the case at a status conference in a Louisville federal courtroom Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings moved the trial back about two months to Oct. 30, after Hankison's lawyers asked for more time to process massive amounts of evidence turned over by federal prosecutors. Hankison was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department last year along with three other officers, one of whom has pleaded guilty to helping falsify the warrant used to enter Taylor's apartment on March 13, 2020. Taylor was killed in her hallway after officers broke down the door and Taylor's boyfriend fired a shot that struck a police sergeant. Taylor's killing along with George Floyd's death at the hands of Minnesota police in 2020 ignited protests that summer around the country over racial injustice. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the federal indictments in the Taylor case in August, remarking that Taylor "should be alive today." Hankison is the only officer who fired shots during the raid who has been charged in any court. Prosecutors determined that two other officers who fired and struck Taylor were justified in shooting back after Taylor's boyfriend fired at them. [embedded content] Hankison, 46, was acquitted in Former detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany March of charges brought by state prosecutors for endangering Taylor's next-door neighbors with shots he fired into Taylor's apartment that went through her walls.  Hankison retreated from the open doorway and fired 10 bullets into a sliding door and window on the side of Taylor's apartment. The more recent federal charges accuse him of endangering neighbors along with Taylor and her boyfriend. Hankison's trial is set for Aug. 21 in Louisville before U.S. District Judge Rebecca Jennings Grady. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. Another former officer, Kelly Goodlett, has already pleaded guilty to a federal charge, and is expected to testify in the cases against two more officers who were involved in crafting the Taylor warrant.  Former detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany are charged with conspiring to deprive Taylor of her civil rights. Jaynes and Meany are set to be tried together on Oct. 25. Goodlett's guilty plea was moved from last year to Dec. 13, presumably after Jaynes and Meany's cases are finished. Make it easy to keep up-to-date with more stories like this. Download the WHAS11 News app now. For Apple or Android users. Have a news tip? Email [email protected], visit our Facebook page or Twitter feed.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The large volume of evidence collected in the Breonna Taylor case prompted a judge on Wednesday to push back the trial date for a former Kentucky police officer who fired blindly into Taylor's apartment during the deadly no-knock raid on her apartment in 2020.The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Brett Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by police in Louisville. Taylor, who worked as an emergency medical technician, was shot multiple times during the raid. The warrant for the raid was later found to be flawed. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings moved the trial back about two months to Oct. 30, after Hankison's lawyers asked for more time to process massive amounts of evidence turned over by federal prosecutors.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The large volume of evidence collected in the Breonna Taylor case prompted a judge on Wednesday to push back the trial date for a former Kentucky police officer who fired blindly into Taylor's apartment during the deadly no-knock raid on her apartment in 2020.The trial will mark a second attempt by prosecutors to convict Brett Hankison for his actions on the night Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot to death by police in Louisville. Taylor, who worked as an emergency medical technician, was shot multiple times during the raid. The warrant for the raid was later found to be flawed. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings moved the trial back about two months to Oct. 30, after Hankison's lawyers asked for more time to process massive amounts of evidence turned over by federal prosecutors.