criminal justice

Former WAVE 3 reporter Kaitlin Rust said she has “cautious optimism” amidst the new allegations against the same officer that fired pepper balls at her in 2020.

An investigation is underway after Louisville Metro Department of Corrections reported an in-custody death Wednesday.

A recent rash of executions and high profile death penalty cases with credible claims of innocence show just how hard it is to overturn a death penalty conviction. Experts say that's by design.

A federal jury in Louisville found former Louisville Metro Police detective Brett Hankison guilty late Friday of depriving Breonna Taylor of her civil rights.

Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the retrial of former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison.

Federal prosecutors spent two-and-a-half hours questioning Brett Hankison on the last day of his retrial. Also, the question of whether Breonna Taylor was alive when he fired into the home could have implications for one of the charges in the case.

Former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison took the witness stand in his own defense as his retrial Monday. Closing arguments in the case are expected Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors rested their case Thursday, the fourth day of testimony in the retrial of Brett Hankison, a former detective accused of blindly firing shots into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March 2020.

Some Louisville police officers said they don’t understand Brett Hankison's decision to fire several shots through Breonna Taylor’s apartment window and sliding glass door during the botched police raid on March 13, 2020.

The retrial for ex-LMPD officer Brett Hankison continued, as the prosecution called a crime scene investigator, an FBI agent and a former SWAT commander to the stand on Tuesday.