The U.S. Department of Justice has filed new charges against two former Louisville police officers already facing federal crimes in connection with the fatal raid on Breonna Taylor's home in 2020.

The so-called “superseding” indictments come a little more than a month after a judge's dismissal of the most serious charges against former Louisville Metro Police Detectives Joshua Jaynes and Sgt. Kyle Meany.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Simpson's Aug. 22 ruling, in essence, found that the initial gunshot Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at police was the "legal cause of her death" — not an improper warrant that authorized the raid.

Jaynes and Meany are accused of providing and lying about false information in a search warrant used by police to burst into Taylor's house, resulting in her death.

In the new indictments, the prosecutors amended the original indictments, adding additional allegations in hopes of getting around the judge's ruling. 

Jaynes and Meany will have to be arraigned again, with a scheduled court date on Oct. 18. Both are currently released on bond. [MORE]