Breonna Taylor's ex-boyfriend was offered a deal to say she was involved in organized crime
The lead attorney representing
Breonna Taylor's family says Louisville prosecutors offered Jamarcus Glover — her ex-boyfriend who is facing multiple drug-related charges — a plea deal that listed Taylor, who was shot and killed by police in her own home in March, as a co-defendant in the case.
Sam Aguiar
posted a picture of the purported plea deal on Facebook Monday.
"[Jefferson County] Commonwealth Attorney Tom Wine tried to give the Elliott Ave. defendants a plea deal on July 13 which would have identified Breonna Taylor as a 'co-defendant' for actions related to the arrests on April 22, 2020," Aguiar said in the post. "[W]hen was Breonna Taylor ever a co-defendant? And oh by the way, the cops killed her a month and a half before April 22 and four months to the day before the date of this effort to get a plea deal."
Aguiar added, "This goes to show how desperate Tom Wine ... is to justify the wrongful search of Breonna Taylor’s home, her killing and arrest of
Kenneth Walker."
In response to Aguiar's damning Facebook post, Wine
released a statement later on Monday, stating that the document "was a draft that was part of preindictment plea negotiations with Mr. Glover and his attorney."
"Those drafts were never part of the court record and are not court documents," Wine said. "[O]ut of respect for Ms. Taylor, I directed that Ms. Breonna Taylor’s name be removed. The final plea sheet provided to Mr. Glover’s counsel is attached and clearly does not include Ms. Taylor as a Co-Defendant."
"Breonna Taylor was never a Co-Defendant in the Jamarcus Glover case," Wine said.
However, Lonita Baker, part of the legal team representing the Taylor family, told The Hill that the plea deal in question had, in fact, been "tendered" to Glover and his attorney. The only reason why it isn't a "court document" is because Glover rejected the deal, which would have seen him serve 10 years in prison.
