Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss charges against former Louisville officers Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, who had been accused of falsifying the warrant that preceded the 2020 police raid in which Breonna Taylor was killed. A federal judge had twice reduced the felony charges to misdemeanors, finding no direct causal link between inaccuracies in the warrant and Taylor’s death....
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A defendant may plead guilty or not guilty, or, with the consent of the prosecutor and judge, may plead “no contest.” See G.S. 15A-1011(a), (b).
An acquittal under the Double Jeopardy Clause includes a dismissal of a charge for insufficient evidence or an appellate court’s reversal of a conviction for insufficient evidence.
A prosecution in superior court must be by indictment, although a noncapital defendant may waive the right to an indictment and be tried on an information. See G.S. 15A-642; -943.
The state must give notice to the defendant of any expert witnesses that the state reasonably expects to call as a witness at trial.
A judge may accept an Alford plea, in which a defendant pleads guilty but does not admit committing the offense and protests his or her innocence, if the record strongly supports the defendant’s guilt and the defendant intelligently concludes that it is in his or her interest to enter such a plea. The consent of the prosecutor is not required.
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