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Jason Riley
@JasonRileyWDRB
From The Ville. https://t.co/zKbHKib2oN criminal justice reporter. The Courier-Journal alum. Email: Jriley@wdrb.com. Blockbuster Video employee of the month Dec. 1996.
Sep 6, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Louisville police included multiple lies in request for Breonna Taylor search warrant, former detective admits
wdrb.news/3TPye9u Former @LMPD Det. Joshua Jaynes and his partner, Kelly Goodlett, had a "gut feeling" that a suspected drug dealer was using Breonna Taylor's home to store drugs and money. But when the evidence they were looking for proved to be false, they used it anyway.
Sep 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Former @LMPD Det. Brett Hankison has a hearing in U.S. District Court this morning regarding his attorney status. He currently does not have one. He is one of 4 former officers charged in connection with the fatal raid on Breonna Taylor’s home.
Background: wdrb.com/wdrb-investiga… Hankison says he is going to retain three attorneys. One local.
One is Stew Mathews, who represented him in the state criminal case, in which he was acquitted.
Said he undertook a "nationwide" search to find an attorney, conducting interviews.
wdrb.com/news/former-lo…
Oct 25, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Defense attorneys asking judge to prohibit prosecution from telling jurors Roger Burdette was watching porn when wreck occurred. Says there is a “social stigma” with porn and prosecution just needs to prove he was distracted. Type of video not important, defense argues Prosecution argues it’s important to prove Burdette went searching for the specific porn, which was something he had watched before, and that he was not listening to the dialogue.
Defense says “who cares if it was a favorite?”
May 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
New docs claim former Adidas exec. Chris Rivers paid the family of Zion Williamson & other athletes by laundering money from Adidas through another company he controls. For example, Rivers allegedly made payments to an Ashley Furniture store credit account held by Zion's stepdad Brian Bowen's attorneys claim Rivers used his company "In Your Eye Sports" to transfer thousands of dollars via bank wires to the parents of many athletes, including Zion Williamson, when he was an amateur high school basketball player at Spartanburg Day School.
May 17, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Attorney Steve Romines, who now represents Ronnie O'Bannon, tells judge "every factor in this case" dictates that O'Bannon's bond should be lowered.
Most important thing, he said, is "there is no dispute" victim attacked O'Bannon with a champagne bottle. He did respond. The two were separated when the woman attacked O'Bannon again. "He defended himself."
Romines said he probably should not have been charged in the first place.
Sep 30, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: @LMPD was told no 'suspicious' packages were sent to Breonna Taylor's home, according to an internal police investigation.
wdrb.news/36lQQYo Shively police Sgt. Timothy Salyer said after he read the warrant affidavit, he asked Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly about it.
“Sgt. Mattingly stated he told Detective Jaynes there was no package history at that address,” Salyer told investigators.
Sep 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
.@kyoag has asked a Louisville judge to delay having to turn over the Breonna Taylor grand jury transcripts for one week "in the interest of protection of witnesses." Image The attorney for former @LMPD officer Brett Hankison is in agreement with the motion to delay. The prosecutors for @kyoag say they need more time to redact personal information of private citizens named in the grand jury info.
Now we see what the judge says.
Sep 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron did not give the grand jury in the #BreonnaTaylor case the option to consider murder or even lesser charges charges in her death
via @LASmithReports
wdrb.com/news/grand-jur… Cameron said Officers Cosgrove and/or Mattingly fired into the upstairs apartment and shouldn't be charged for wanton endangerment because Walker shot first, giving them "cover for every shot they returned, regardless of its result."
Sep 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Um. Nobody saw an inmate bust a hole in a courthouse window and shimmy down a hose? From the Metro Corrections Spox: “Metro Corrections Director Dwayne Clark has ordered an internal investigation into the circumstances that contributed to Inmate Martinez’s unauthorized departure.”
Sep 29, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Q: Does grand juror believe @kyoag lied in #BreonnaTaylor ruling?

A: My client wants to make sure the truth comes out. "There were certain questions that were left unanswered," said attorney Kevin Glogower, who is representing the unnamed grand juror.
The jurors want the ability to be able to talk publicly.
Sep 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Oh man the hot takes after this Ravens game will scorch the sun THEY CAN’T WIN THE BIG GAMES
Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
And now a grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case has filed a lawsuit in Jefferson Circuit COurt to release the grand jury proceedings.
"Choose truth," the suit says. "The only exception to the responsibility he foisted upon the grand jury was in his statement that they 'agreed' with his team's investigation that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their actions."
Sep 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Former @LMPD Det. Brett Hankison is scheduled to be arraigned in Jefferson Circuit Court at 3:30 on three felony counts of wanton endangerment for shooting into a nearby apartment during the raid on Breonna Taylor's home in March.
wdrb.com/in-depth/grand… Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Ann Bailey Smith is presiding over the case.
Barbara Whaley is the prosecutor for the Attorney General's office and Stewart Mathews, a Cincinnati attorney, is representing Brett Hankison.
Sep 28, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Interim @LMPD Chief Robert Schroeder is supposed to testify shortly in front of the Metro Council's Government Oversight and Audit Committee on police actions during protests in the wake of Breonna Taylor's death.
wdrb.com/news/metro-cou… Chief Schroeder says in opening statement that he has been unable to talk publicly because of pending litigation. He says "our response was not always perfect. We are not perfect people," but it was best they could do given the circumstances officers had never faced before.
Sep 28, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: @LMPD SWAT commander called #BreonnaTaylor raid an 'egregious act'
"We just got the feeling that night, you know, um, something really bad happened."
wdrb.news/3455NeT SWAT commander Lt. Dale Massey told police investigators he "had no idea" there was going to be a raid of Taylor’s apartment that night.
"We should have knowledge of what they’re doing. We treat safety very important, right? So, like simultaneous warrants, they’re bad business"
Sep 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Former @LMPD Chief Steve Conrad was initially told by his commanders that Breonna Taylor fired at police with a rifle.
"She was the one directing the fire, you know, at them,” Conrad said.
wdrb.com/in-depth/ex-lm… In addition, while Conrad was at the hospital to see Sgt. Jon Mattingly, he said he saw Det. Brett Hankison walking around, which the chief acknowledged was unusual because someone from the public integrity unit “is usually tasked with keeping up with the officers involved.”
Sep 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the arrest citation for Kentucky State Rep. Attica Scott, @LMPD claims she was "part of a large group" that was ordered to disperse "and failed to do so. Subjects caused extensive damage at multiple locations including setting fire to the Louisville Public Library." .@LMPD interim Chief Robert Schroeder says anyone "part of a group causing riotous" behavior can be charged with rioting, a felony. He says you need to separate yourself from a group causing damage. That's why others who may not have caused any damage were also charged.
Sep 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Ben Crump, an attorney for Taylor's family, says the family is "heartbroken, devastated and outraged and confused and bewildered as to what @kyoag presented to the grand jury. Did he present any evidence on Breonna Taylor's behalf or did he put ... his thumb on scales of justice" Crump says "they charged the police for missing" Black people, but not shooting Taylor.
He demands Cameron release the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings.
"What did he argue on Breonna's behalf?"
Sep 25, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Kentucky State Rep. Attica Scott has been arrested and is being booked in Metro Corrections on a charge of unlawful assembly, according to Tracy Dotson, spokesman for the Metro Corrections Fraternal Order of Police union. .@atticascott4ky has proposed legislation known as "Breonna's Law," which would end the use of no-knock warrants statewide.
wdrb.com/news/kentucky-…
Sep 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@louisvillemayor said "the case is far from over" and the FBI is still investigating police. And LMPD is doing an internal investigation to determine if any policies were violated.
It's clear, he said, some policies need to be changed or Breonna Taylor would be alive. "Let's turn to each other and not on each other," Fischer says.
Question: Will you call on @kyoag to release grand jury report?
Yes, as long as it doesn't imperil ongoing investigations.
Sep 23, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
.@GovAndyBeshear says he can't control the Attorney General's office or a grand jury. But he says injustices and inequalities must be addressed, create a world without racism and oppression.
"There is so much more work to be done," he said. "My job is to continue to listen" Beshear says "the public deserves" to see the information presented to the grand jury in the #BreonnaTaylor case (without impacting the Hankison indictment.)
"Everyone can and should be informed."