Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron asked to delay the release of grand jury recordings in the Breonna Taylor case.
The attorney general’s office filed a motion on Tuesday that seeks to give it another week to release the recordings, claiming that it needs additional time to make sure private citizens’ personal information is redacted, according to WLKY. The recording is more than 20 hours long in total. The development came a day after a judge ordered the office to release the information, which it had initially said would be released on Wednesday.
The judge granted a shorter delay that Cameron’s office was seeking, ruling that the recording should be made public by Friday, according to the Associated Press.
“For its grounds, the Commonwealth states that in the interest of protection of witnesses, and in particular private citizens named in the recordings, the Commonwealth seeks to redact personal identifiers of any named person, and to redact both names and personal identifiers of any private citizen,” the motion reads.
The judge presiding over Brett Hankison’s case, the only former Louisiana law enforcement official to be charged for his role in the raid that resulted in Taylor’s death (though the charges were not tied to her death), ordered the grand jury recordings released.
Cameron, in his filing, noted that Hankison’s legal representation agreed with the delay.
Hankison was charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment earlier this month. Prosecutors allege that Hankison endangered Taylor’s neighbors after he responded to one shot being fired at the officers by Taylor’s boyfriend by firing his weapon into a neighboring apartment. If convicted, Hankison, who was fired from the police department, could face up to five years in prison for each count. The other two officers involved in the March raid were not charged.
The death of Taylor, a black, 26-year-old emergency room technician, and the limited charges that were handed down as a result of the raid have prompted a wave of protests.
One of the grand jurors filed a motion in Jefferson County earlier this week for the court to release all records in the investigation.
The juror, who is not named in the Monday court filing, said through a lawyer that more details are wanted about what happened in the proceedings so that “the truth may prevail.”
