The case had already been on shaky legal footing after repeated rulings during the Biden administration. Prosecutors originally brought the indictment in August 2023, alleging a felony civil rights violation under 18 U.S.C. § 242. But in August 2024, a federal judge struck the felony allegations and reduced the charge to a misdemeanor, finding the government had not sufficiently linked the alleged false statements in the warrant to Taylor’s death. Rather than appeal, Biden-era prosecutors pursued a superseding indictment in October 2024 in an attempt to bolster the case with additional factual allegations. That effort also failed. In August, the...
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