Federal Prosecutors File New Indictment Against Former Officers Involved in Breonna Taylor Case

Federal prosecutors filed a new indictment Tuesday against two former Louisville officers accused of falsifying a warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor’s door before she was fatally shot when he boyfriend opened fire and wounded one of the officers.

The Justice Department's superseding indictment comes weeks after a federal judge threw out major felony charges against former Louisville Police Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt. Kyle Meany, ABC News reports.

In August, U.S. District Judge Charles Simpson declared that the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend were the legal cause of her death, not a bad warrant.

The new indictment includes additional allegations about how the former officers allegedly falsified the affidavit for the search warrant.

It says they both knew the affidavit they used to obtain the warrant to search Taylor's home contained information that was false, misleading and out of date, omitted “material information" and knew it lacked the necessary probable cause.