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    Kentucky’s attorney general agrees to release grand jury tapes in Breonna Taylor case

    Kentucky’s attorney general acknowledged that he never recommended homicide charges against any of the police officers conducting the drug raid that led to Breonna Taylor’s death, and said he didn’t object to a judge’s order to publicly release the grand jury’s deliberations. Amid outrage over the jury’s decision last week to not charge any of the officers for Taylor’s fatal shooting, Attorney General Daniel Cameron said Monday that he didn’t object to the public release of the proceedings or to any members of the panel speaking publicly about their experience. “We have no concerns with grand jurors sharing their thoughts ...


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    Breonna Taylor's Western High School teachers remember a 'natural-born leader'

    To her former teachers at Louisville's Western High School, Breonna Taylor is more than a name chanted repeatedly by people in the streets. She is more than a hashtag. More than a photo on a billboard or in a magazine. To these educators, Taylor "was a real person that touched each of our lives very deeply," as Nureka Dixon put it Thursday morning. Dixon, who was the assistant principal at Western and now holds the same position at Seneca High School, and three other teachers who knew Taylor from her time at Western gathered in the school's library Thursday to ...


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    Family of Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake hold Evanston rally and encourage people to vote

    A day after a Kentucky court released recordings from grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case, family members of Taylor and Jacob Blake hosted a rally Saturday afternoon in Evanston to call for justice and encourage people to hit the polls. Taylor’s aunt, Bianca Austin, linked arms with Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr., as they led a group of about 200 people on a half-mile march on Emerson Street in the north suburb. “These people need to start being held accountable for killing our kids, and we’re sick of it,” Austin told attendees during her speech while wearing her ...


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    Runners in Portland champion social justice on Breonna Taylor’s birthday

    A small group of runners gathered at Portland’s Payson Park on Saturday for the birthday of Breonna Taylor, the Black woman whose death at the hands of police in Louisville, Kentucky, inspired social-justice activists around the country. Wearing black gear and racing bibs that said “Justice for Breonna Taylor,” the members of Unity Runners Portland, a local chapter of a national group, circled Back Cove to bring awareness to her death and continuing advocacy around the use of potentially dangerous “no-knock” raids by police. The group has been running each week since August 2020 to remember Taylor, but Saturday marked ...


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    Runners in Portland champion social justice on Breonna Taylor's birthday

    A small group of runners gathered at Portland's Payson Park on Saturday for the birthday of Breonna Taylor, the Black woman whose death at the hands of police in Louisville, Kentucky, inspired social-justice activists around the country. Wearing black gear and racing bibs that said "Justice for Breonna Taylor," the members of Unity Runners Portland, a local chapter of a national group, circled Back Cove to bring awareness to her death and continuing advocacy around the use of potentially dangerous "no-knock" raids by police. The group has been running each week since August 2020 to remember Taylor, but Saturday marked ...


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    Ex-officer charged in Breonna Taylor raid begins trial

    Nearly two years after Breonna Taylor was killedby police, the only Kentucky officer charged criminally in the botched raid went on trial Wednesday for shooting bullets that penetrated Taylor’s neighbors’ apartment. Brett Hankison, now a former officer, fired 10 shots, none of which hit the Black woman, but prosecutors said they endangered the couple and child who lived next door. Prosecutors told jurors the case is not about the killing of Taylor, for which the city of Louisville paid a settlement to her family, an amount that won’t bring her back. Barbara Maines Whaley, a prosecutor with the Kentucky attorney ...


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    Judge Ann Bailey Smith: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    Judge Ann Bailey Smith is presiding over the Brett Hankison trial. Smith is the Division 13 judge in Jefferson Circuit Court in Louisville, Kentucky. Hankison is a former Louisville Metro Police officer who is facing charges related to the Breonna Taylor case, but his charges are not directly related to her death. Hankison was involved in the raid on her home March 13, 2020, and is facing three counts of wanton endangerment, a Class D felony. He is accused of firing shots into a neighbor’s home. Hankison is the only officer charged in the case. Here’s what you need to ...


    1. Smith Spent Most of Her Career as a Public Defender & Represented a Woman Accused of Murdering Her Husband Following Years of Abuse

    Smith spent the majority of her career with the Public Defender’s Office and ran for judge after serving for 20 years in law, she said in an interview with the Kentucky Appellate Survey. In her time with the Public Defender’s Office, she served as an attorney in several landmark cases, according to her profile on Citizens for Better Judges. Early in her career, she represented juveniles accused of crimes. She served as co-counsel for Major Crane, a 16-year-old boy accused of murder. Smith was among the attorneys who fought to suppress his confession, due to the length of time the ...


    2. Smith Is Married & Has 4 Children; She Is a Lifelong Louisville Resident Who Has Won Several Awards

    Smith has been married for more than 20 years to her husband, Leo G. Smith, according to her profile on Citizens for Better Judges. She has four children, two boys and two girls. Their ages are 13, 16, 17 and 19, her profile says. Smith is a lifelong resident of Louisville, her profile says. She completed her undergrad at the University of Louisville and studied abroad for a semester at the University of London before returning home to study at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. She earned her Juris Doctorate Degree in May 1982, her ...


    3. Smith Was Elected to an Eight-Year Term That Began in 2015 & Was Admitted Into the Kentucky Bar Association in 1982

    Smith was admitted into the Kentucky Bar Association in 1982 and has no record of public discipline, according to public records. Smith is nearing the end of an eight-year term that began January 15, 2015, and ends January 1, 2023, according to Ballotpedia. She was elected to serve as a a judge of the 30th Circuit Court in Jefferson County, Kentucky in 2014. Smith received 61% of the vote that year, Ballotpedia reported. She was running against Sandy Berman, who Smith defeated in the general election. Smith was the incumbent in 2014, having already served a four-year term. She said ...


    4. Smith First Went to College as a Piano Major & Then Changed Her Degree to English With a Focus on Teaching

    Smith had a circuitous route to her law career, she said in an interview with the Kentucky Appellate Survey. She studied at Morehead State University for two years, majoring in piano, but determined a career as a pianist was not very practical, she said in the interview. “While I enjoyed my time at Morehead and loved playing the piano, I realized that job opportunities as a pianist were limited and I would probably not be able to afford to keep a roof over my head,” Smith said. She transferred to the University of Louisville and majored in English with plans ...


    5. Smith Ordered the Questioning of Prospective Jurors Would Remain Open to the Public

    Smith denied a motion from Hankison’s defense attorney, Stew Mathews, ordering that the questioning of jurors would remain open to the public, according to the Courier-Journal. Read more about Mathews here. While Smith denied Mathews’ motion to bar the public and news media from watching the questioning, she imposed some limitations, ordering that no photo or video would be permitted inside the courtroom, the newspaper reported at the time of the decision in late January 2022. She said that she determined the “narrowly tailored limitation” should be granted due to the “extensive media coverage this case has generated,” according to ...


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