Ex-US policeman in Breonna Taylor killing sentenced to 33 months
District Judge Rebecca Jennings, in delivering the sentence for Brett Hankison, rejected a recommendation by the Justice Department that he be given only one day in jail, the Louisville Courier Journal said.
Hankison was convicted in November by a federal jury in Kentucky of one count of abusing Taylor's civil rights for shots fired during a botched police raid on her home.
The head of the Trump Justice Department's civil rights division, in an unusual intervention, had asked the judge last week to sentence Hankison to time served – the day he spent in jail at the time of his arrest.
Jennings, who was appointed to the bench by Donald Trump during his first term as president, said she was troubled by the prosecutor's sentencing memorandum and arguments for leniency, the Courier Journal said.
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