Protesters participate in the Good Trouble Tuesday march for Breonna Taylor in August 2020, in Louisville, Kentucky. Photograph: Amy Harris/Invision/AP

Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany were accused of lying on document used to enter Taylors house on night of shooting

A federal judge has dismissed charges against two former Louisville police officers accused of falsifying the warrant used to enter Breonna Taylor s apartment the night police shot her to death.

Charles Simpson, a US district judge, issued a one-page ruling on Friday throwing out charges against Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, two former officers involved in crafting the Taylor warrant.

Federal prosecutors in the Trump administration asked a judge recently to dismiss charges against the former officers in the interest of justice. Prosecutors noted that the court had already removed some felony charges against Jaynes and Meany in previous proceedings.

Merrick Garland, the former Biden administration US attorney general, announced charges against Jaynes and Meany in 2022 in a high-profile news conference in Louisville, where Garland said: Breonna Taylor should still be alive today. Garland said the officers at the scene who shot Taylor, 26, were unaware of the false and misleading statements in the warrant.

Taylors boyfriend fired one shot at police after they broke down her front door with a battering ram. Police returned fire, striking Taylor multiple times in her hallway. Her killing, along with the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, sparked weeks of racial justice protests in the summer of 2020.

Jaynes was facing charges for conspiracy and falsification of records and misdemeanor civil rights violations. Meany was facing a charge for allegedly lying to federal investigators.

The warrant used to enter Taylors apartment alleged she was receiving packages for a suspected drug dealer and former boyfriend. The document said Jaynes had confirmed with the postal service that packages for the ex-boyfriend were going to Taylors apartment. Investigators later learned that Jaynes had not confirmed that information with the postal inspector. Meany, a former police sergeant, signed off on the warrant.

Jaynes was fired by Louisville police in 2021 for being untruthful about the warrant. Meany was fired after he was charged in 2022.

乔舒亚·杰恩斯与凯尔·米尼被指控在枪击案当晚为进入泰勒住所而伪造文件。

一名联邦法官驳回了对路易斯维尔市两名前警察的指控，他们被控在警方击毙布伦娜·泰勒的当晚，伪造了进入其公寓的搜查令。

美国地区法官查尔斯·辛普森（Charles Simpson）周五发布了一份一页纸的裁决，撤销了对约书亚·杰恩斯（Joshua Jaynes）和凯尔·米尼（Kyle Meany）的指控。这两名前警官曾参与制定泰勒搜查令。

特朗普执政时期的联邦检察官近日以"出于司法公正考虑"为由，请求法官撤销对两名前警官的指控。检方指出，法院在先前诉讼程序中已撤销了对杰恩斯（Jaynes）和米尼（Meany）的部分重罪指控。

拜登政府时期的美国司法部长梅里克·加兰于2022年在路易斯维尔市举行的一场备受瞩目的新闻发布会上，宣布对杰恩斯和米尼提出指控。加兰在会上表示：『布伦娜·泰勒今天本应还活着。』加兰指出，当时在现场开枪击毙26岁泰勒的警员们并不知晓搜查令中存在『虚假和误导性陈述』。

泰勒的男友在警方用破门锤撞开她家前门后向警察开了一枪。警方随即还击，在走廊中多次击中泰勒。她的死亡，连同明尼苏达州乔治·弗洛伊德之死，引发了2020年夏季持续数周的种族正义抗议活动。

杰恩斯面临共谋、伪造记录以及轻罪民权侵权的指控。米尼则因涉嫌向联邦调查人员作虚假陈述而被起诉。

警方用于进入泰勒公寓的搜查令声称，她涉嫌为一名疑似毒贩的前男友代收包裹。文件显示，杰恩斯曾向邮政部门核实，寄给这名前男友的包裹确实送往泰勒的住所。但调查人员后续发现，杰恩斯并未与邮政督察确认该信息。这份搜查令最终由前警长米尼签署批准。

杰恩斯因在搜查令问题上隐瞒实情，于2021年被路易斯维尔警方解职。米尼则在2022年被起诉后遭免职。