更新于：2026年3月20日 / 美国东部时间下午3:34 / CBS新闻
美国司法部周五表示，将撤回针对两名被控与布雷娜·泰勒枪击致死案有关的民权罪名的前路易斯维尔警察的刑事诉讼。
在周五提交的法庭文件中，民权司的律师称，他们正寻求有偏见地驳回对约书亚·杰恩斯（Joshua Jaynes）和凯尔·米尼（Kyle Meany）的待审案件，这意味着该案件未来无法被重新提起。法官尚未就该动议作出裁决。
该文件由助理司法部长哈米特·迪隆（Harmeet Dhillon）、代理副部长助理罗伯特·基南（Robert Keenan）和代理刑事部主任凯蒂·内夫（Katie Neff）签署。该部门刑事部门没有任何职业检察官签署这份简要陈述。
布雷娜·泰勒于2020年3月在警方对其住所进行的一次失败突袭中被警察开枪打死。
杰恩斯和米尼均被司法部指控协助剥夺泰勒根据《第四修正案》享有的免受不合理搜查和扣押的权利。
司法部指控他们为获取泰勒住所的搜查令向杰斐逊县州法院法官撒谎。
杰恩斯被指控起草了一份基于肯定性谎言和遗漏性谎言的搜查令宣誓书，而检察官称米尼在明知该宣誓书基于谎言的情况下仍签署了它。
2023年和2025年，联邦法院两次驳回了司法部对这两名前警察提出的重罪指控，将指控降为轻罪的”法律名义下违法行为”。
米尼的律师迈克尔·登博（Michael Denbow）表示：”凯尔对今天的文件感到非常感激。他期待着将此事抛在脑后，继续自己的生活。”
目前无法立即联系到杰恩斯的律师置评。
布雷娜·泰勒家人的律师也无法立即取得联系。
这标志着自去年以来，民权司已驳回或寻求对一系列高调的”法律名义下违法行为”案件从轻量刑的最新一例。
基南是美国加利福尼亚州中区联邦检察官办公室的资深联邦检察官，现在是迪隆高级领导团队的成员，他参与了大多数此类案件。
在洛杉矶的一起过度使用武力案件中，他要求法官驳回一名当地副警长的重罪定罪——这一举动促使案件中的几名检察官辞职抗议。
去年，他还要求路易斯维尔的一名联邦法官仅判处前路易斯维尔警察布雷特·汉基森（Brett Hankison）入狱一天。汉基森在审判中被定罪，罪名是侵犯泰勒的权利。
法官拒绝了他的请求，并判处汉基森33个月监禁。
本月早些时候，哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）报道称，基南是民权司目前被指派调查明尼阿波利斯亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）枪击致死案的两名工作人员之一。
DOJ moves to dismiss criminal case against ex-police officers charged for role in Breonna Taylor’s death
Updated on: March 20, 2026 / 3:34 PM EDT / CBS News
The Justice Department on Friday moved to dismiss its criminal case against two former Louisville police officers who were facing civil rights charges in connection with the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
In a court filing Friday, lawyers from the Civil Rights Division said they are seeking to dismiss the pending case against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany with prejudice, which means it could not be revived in the future. The judge has not yet ruled on 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 career prosecutors from the division’s criminal section signed the brief.
Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police officers in March 2020 during a botched police raid at her home.
Both Jaynes and Meany were accused by the Justice Department of aiding and abetting the deprivation of Taylor’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
The Justice Department alleged that they lied to a Jefferson County state court judge in order to obtain the warrant for Taylor’s home.
Jaynes was accused of drafting a warrant affidavit based on both affirmative lies and lies by omission, while prosecutors alleged Meany signed off on the affidavit, though he knew it was based on lies.
A federal court on two separate occasions in 2023 and again in 2025 struck the Justice Department’s felony allegations against the two former officers, reducing them to misdemeanor color-of-law violations instead.
“Kyle is incredibly grateful for today’s filings. He is looking forward to putting this matter behind him and moving forward with his life,” said Michael Denbow, an attorney for Meany.
An attorney for Jaynes could not be immediately reached for comment.
Attorneys for Breonna Taylor’s family could not be immediately reached.
This marks the latest in a string of high-profile color-of-law cases that the Civil Rights Division has dismissed or sought lighter sentences for since last year.
Keenan, a longtime federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California who is now part of Dhillon’s senior leadership team, has been involved in most of the matters.
In one excessive force case in Los Angeles, he asked a judge to dismiss felony convictions against a local deputy sheriff — a move that prompted several prosecutors on the case to resign in protest.
He also asked a federal judge in Louisville last year to sentence former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison — who was convicted at trial for violating Taylor’s rights — to serve just one day in prison.
The judge rejected his request and sentenced Hankison to 33 months.
Earlier this month CBS reported that he is one of two staff members from the Civil Rights Division now assigned to investigate the shooting death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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