Ex-Louisville Detective, Accused Of Lying On Breonna Taylor Search Warrant, To Plead Guilty

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By Andrew Wolfson

Former Louisville Metro Police Detective Kelly Goodlett will plead guilty to one count of con­spir­ing to vio­late the civ­il rights of Breonna Taylor for help­ing fal­si­fy an affi­davit for the search of her apart­ment in March 2020, her attor­ney said. 

Goodlett will appear Aug. 22 before U.S. District Judge David Hall to enter her plea, her lawyer, Brandon Marshall, announced in court Friday.

Magistrate Judge Regina Edwards ordered Goodlett to sur­ren­der her pass­port and have no con­tact with her code­fen­dants ― Sgt. Kyle Meany and for­mer detec­tives Joshua Jaynes and Brett Hankison.

Goodlett was expect­ed to plead guilty ― and tes­ti­fy against her col­leagues ― because she was charged by infor­ma­tion rather than indicted.

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She faces a sen­tence of no more than five years in prison.

The charg­ing doc­u­ment says Goodlett false­ly claimed a postal inspec­tor had ver­i­fied Taylor was receiv­ing pack­ages for her ex-boyfriend, con­vict­ed drug deal­er Jamarcus Glover, at her apart­ment before the raid

Goodlett, a detec­tive in the now-dis­band­ed Place-Based Investigations, also is charged with know­ing­ly con­spir­ing with Jaynes and oth­ers to fal­si­fy the search war­rant affidavit.

She is also accused of false­ly telling inves­ti­ga­tors with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office that Sgt. John Mattingly “in pass­ing” had told Goodlett and Jaynes that three months before Taylor’s death that Glover was get­ting mail or Amazon pack­age at her apartment

And she is accused of meet­ing with Jaynes in his garage after local TV sta­tion WDRB report­ed the claim about the postal inspec­tor was bogus so she and Jayne could “get on the same page.”

Jayne and Meany also face civ­il rights charges for the search that end­ed in Taylor’s death while Hankison is charged with vio­lat­ing the civ­il rights of Taylor; her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker; and three of Taylor’s neigh­bors; by blind­ly fir­ing shots into her apartment.

Taylor was killed dur­ing a police raid on her Louisville apart­ment when Walker, think­ing an intrud­er was break­ing in, fired one shot that hit Mattingly in the leg. He and Cosgrove returned fire, killing Taylor.

She was 26, and her death set off protests that last­ed for months in Louisville and across the country.