History will not be kind to the prosecutors who failed to do right in Breonna Taylor case Ted Shouse, Opinion Contributor
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Well, that’s that.
On Dec. 4, the Kentucky Prosecutors Advisory Council denied the request of Breonna Taylor’s family to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the circumstances of her killing. Taylor’s family had asked PAC to appoint a new prosecutor to review the Kentucky Attorney General’s performance and potentially present charges to a new grand jury. In a cramped, narrow reading of the law, PAC said no.
A provision of Kentucky law allows for the appointment of a prosecutor when the local commonwealth attorney is “absent.” Absent that’s the word for Jefferson County Commonwealth Attorney Tom Wine throughout the whole Taylor mess. After incorrectly charging Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker, Wine asserted a conflict of interest and has maintained a deafening silence ever since.