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From The Ville. criminal justice reporter. The Courier-Journal alum. Email: Jriley @wdrb .com. Blockbuster Video employee of the month Dec. 1996.

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Jason Riley
4 years
Looks like an officer points weapon and shoots right at cameraman for no apparent reason.
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Christopher Bishop
4 years
This just happened on live tv. Wow, what a douche bag.
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If you watch just one twitter video today, make it this one, if only for the reaction of Brice Rhodes' attorney after he suggests the judge is having sex with the prosecutor. And then accuses judge of being in KKK.
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7 years
So FBI didn't want the NCAA to know about the investigation. That speaks volumes.
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6 years
Bullitt County sheriff says Rep. Dan Johnson shot and killed himself. It happened on Greenwell Ford Road. His body was found on the bridge.
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4 years
. @louisvillemayor announced that @LMPD Officer Brett Hankison has been fired. The press conference lasted less than a minute. Attorneys for #BreonnaTayor claimed Hankison fired more than 20 shots into Taylor's apartment and that of her neighbors and then went AWOL afterwards
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5 years
Lamar Jackson should get half of that $14 million
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Hankison has a long history of being investigation by police, but w/ little discipline. Most recently, the mayor demanded that Hankison be removed from the Louisville Police Merit Board after several woman came forward claiming he sexually assaulted them.
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6 years
If you are keeping track, the Marshall County judge handling the school shooting case has allegedly: - improperly closed the alleged shooter's arraignment - issued an unconstitutional gag order - improperly sealed the entire case - told police to stop interrogation of shooter
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@benshapiro “Under appreciated”
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5 years
@turing_police so, just put a sugar cube and cherry in your mouth and drink a 20 count of bourbon from the bottle. that really is easy.
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5 years
If Lamar Jackson played as bad as Goff tonight, they wouldn’t allow him to play again next year 🔥 🔥
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4 years
Sam Aguiar, an attorney for #BreonnaTayor 's family, on the firing of Hankison: "It's about time and this is the poster child of the dirtiest of dirty cops and the most dangerous of dangerous cops. I hope to God he's never back to working our streets again."
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3 years
We had Jaire Alexander and Lamar Jackson and lost to Houston
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Jason Riley
7 years
Me to kid: "How on earth did u take a shower so quickly?" Him:"I don't sit in there & think about my poor life choices like you probably do"
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Jason Riley
6 years
Grayson Allen is misunderstood and I think the 9 warm, fuzzy profiles CBS does on him during the NCAA tourney will prove that to you haters
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3 years
That’s the first luck UofL has had in roughly 7 years
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Jason Riley
4 years
Attrny Sam Aguiar, who represents Taylor’s family, claims the plea offer shows police & prosecutors were trying to smear her. “The fact that they would try to even represent that she was a co-defendant in a criminal case more than a month after she died is absolutely disgusting”
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6 years
Extremely graphic. This is what former assistant Prospect Police Chief Todd Shaw told an @LMPD recruit about catching juveniles smoking pot. “If black shoot them”
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3 years
Former Assistant University of Louisville basketball coach Dino Gaudio has been federally charged with extortion
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1 year
@emmanuelfelton I always forget to smell the air during news events to see, for example, if it is heavy with oleander, snipped greenery and sea nip. It is one of my unfortunate journalistic shortcomings
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1 year
who leaves after we just built a top golf??
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4 years
. @LMPD has declared a “state of emergency” in preparation for decision in Breonna Taylor case.
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6 years
Danny Alvarez, who won a primary in Jefferson County's judicial races last night, has died of a heart attack. Danny was a wonderful man and a talented attorney who was well-liked by just about everyone in the court system. It is a horrible loss for this community.
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7 months
PUT IT ON A BANNER ON A DOWNTOWN BUILDING
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5 months
If Kenny IS going to be fired, do it before the UK game. I can’t watch him smile and hug Cal after we lose by 72.
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4 years
Defense attorney Ted Shouse said the strategy seems to have been to destroy Breonna Taylor “because she is destroying them. And they want Jamarcus Glover to do it for them because their efforts have failed. So they offer him a bribe, basically. All you have to do is smear her.”
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6 years
Michael Bush doesn't go down in 2006, U of L wins the college football championship.
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Pelicans Smark.
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What’s your most biased sports opinion that you will think is true no matter what?
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2 years
Hey gang, Katina Powell was arrested against yesterday, for allegedly shoplifting $800 of items from Kroger. We can totally talk about this some other time tho
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2 years
@CoreyRForrester my parents paid for my college and I think it’s unfair that now people are going to get a free ride
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7 years
I hear the big news is coming in the morning. And it is Big. News.
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7 months
Sam Hartman is now 9th in UofL history in passing completions
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6 years
@acewing @benshapiro "Why is nobody talking about the 1984 film I am watching/thinking about this very second?!? IT IS UNDER APPRECIATED!"
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4 years
"Who are they aiming at?" "Us! They are aiming directly at us!" Reporter and photographer were several feet away from police not doing anything of note.
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5 years
“Hello, we’re Auburn.” 30,000 UofL fans “Hi Auburn”
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5 years
If you lose this Auburn, we have a support group that meets on Tuesdays
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2 years
Former @LMPD Det. Joshua Jaynes and his partner, Kelly Goodlett, had a "gut feeling" that a suspected drug dealer was using Breonna Taylor's home to store drugs and money. But when the evidence they were looking for proved to be false, they used it anyway.
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3 years
The older I get, the more I go out in public just looking like the guys at the end of pulp fiction
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4 years
Glover turned down the plea offer, which would have resulted in a possible 10-year prison sentence for charges of criminal syndication, drug trafficking and gun charges. If he had taken the plea, Glover could possibly had been released on probation instead of serving prison time.
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2 years
I fear all the UofL news I will miss if I go to sleep. The school could be a soft-rock music station by morning.
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1 month
I hope the fans show up and support the new coach
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6 years
JCPS closing in honor of U of L first win at Notre Dame since 1994 is pretty cool, IMO
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7 years
"Mommy, why won't daddy get out of bed?" "Some teenagers lost a basketball game, sweetheart, and daddy has very serious priority issues"
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1 year
Cincy playing like a Satterfield team already. How does he do that?!
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6 years
Me on Thursday to my family: “No, we are not getting a puppy. We have two elderly animals right now. Nope. Not happening. Period.” Saturday:
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Jason Riley
4 years
It SOUNDED like shots were fired. Occurred right after protesters tried to flip a prisoner transport vehicle
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Jason Riley
2 years
I mean, at least Mack doesn’t have a boss that can be pissed
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5 months
Plummer needs to sit out the bowl game to prepare for his career in whatever his major is
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2 years
Kelly Goodlett, who has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy, went along with the false info because she "had been ostracized early in her career for attempting to report a fellow officer's use of excessive force, so she decided not to call Det. Jaynes out on this lie"
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6 years
Dakich on TV: “UK fans know basketball! I respect them a lot!” Dakich on radio: “Everyone in Kentucky is a toothless inbred dumbass who doesn’t know their ass from third base”
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3 years
The lawsuit claims there was a whiteboard placed in an LMPD division headquarters which was titled "R***Gate" that wagered how many officers would be indicted and the possible number of charges of sodomy and rape each listed officer would face.
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Jason Riley
2 years
Nobody comes into YUM and beats us after we’ve lost 7 in a row
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Jason Riley
4 years
Edwin Chandler spent nine years in prison after former @LMPD Det. Mark Handy forced Chandler into a false confession, taped over video evidence and lied on the stand. Handy was going to get probation for perjury. Judge Olu Stevens rejected that, saying Handy should go to prison
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Jason Riley
2 years
We've cleaned house like twice now, NCAA.
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Jason Riley
4 years
"I owe somebody an apology tonight," @GovAndyBeshear said of saying someone was goofing off & tried to get unemployment under the name Tupac Shakur. There is a person named Tupac Shakur in Ky trying to get benefits. Gov called him. "Thank you for being so kind & again I'm sorry"
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Jason Riley
4 years
someone get me several gifs of that attorney please
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Jason Riley
2 years
NEW: After ‘savage beating’ by Kentucky cops, Alejandro Clarke Jr. died in the back of a cruiser. Clarke was unarmed when KSP & Hardin County deputies hit him repeatedly, tased him 4 times and sicced a K-9 on him three times.
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2 years
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Jason Riley
6 years
Dickie V actually gave birth to McMahon. A lot of people don’t know that
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6 months
STRONGLY worded letter to officials coming
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Jason Riley
5 months
/Kenny Payne press conference/ “You all want to here something funny. No, I shouldn’t say this. Ok. We haven’t actually had a practice all year. Lol. I’m actually into building model trains in my basement. Very time consuming.”
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Jason Riley
5 years
that’s a foul, FYI
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4 years
. @GovAndyBeshear says someone applied for unemployment for Tupac Shakur in Kentucky. "We can't be doing that"
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4 years
“Almost all of the people at once said, 'Isn’t there anything else?' And it was asked more than once if any other charges could be brought."
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4 years
Grand jurors say Cameron's office was asked if more charges could be considered in Breonna Taylor case: | @MarcusGreenWDRB , @kshanahanWDRB
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Jason Riley
1 year
Given the weather, I think the safe, responsible thing to do would be to postpone the UofL-UK game for the next couple years.
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Jason Riley
2 years
Ok, ok, We give Pitino ONE more chance, but that is IT. I’m serious, like double secret probation on day one.
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6 years
My 10-year-old has to write a paper for school about his favorite store. He chose “Dick’s Sporting Goods.” He went online to get info and I noticed he had just typed “Dick’s” in Google and pressed enter. I ripped the computer away. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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So HVL lost in the elite 8 last year to Iowa and left her teammates to chase a ring as the 5th best player on a team led by one of the most disliked people in sports and lost to Iowa in the elite 8.
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6 years
Rep. Dan Johnson posted this Facebook message before he committed suicide
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@MichaelGrant_CJ @verge "Amazon is not responsible if rogue employee steals from you or murders family in middle of the night."
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Jason Riley
5 years
A jury trial for the Rand Paul vs. Rene Boucher civil lawsuit is scheduled for Jan. 28 in Bowling Green. Paul is asking for $4,000 in medical bills he has already incurred. Plus still has to have hernia surgery, costing another $5K-8K- scheduled to take place in Canada on Jan. 21
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2 years
I wish I could tell my 1986 self that Lenny Dykstra was challenging Richard Marx to a fight over statements Ricky Schroder made about Canadian truckers
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Jason Riley
2 years
After the Louisville postal inspector told @WDRBNews information in the warrant was false, Goodlett "realized immediately that she and Det. Jaynes were in trouble." They met in his garage and decided to get on the same page because if Jaynes went down, "she would go down too."
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2 years
"When they conspired to violate Ms. Taylor's Fourth Amendment Rights, they knew that the warrant would be executed, at night, by officers with firearms, and that it was foreseeable that a person in the home could be injured or killed," according to the court records.
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7 years
Statement from Rick Pitino through attorney Steve Pence.
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6 years
Louisville could lose 72-0 and I will still say the defense looks better without Sirmon
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Jason Riley
4 years
Two men wearing camo with long guns were spotted by the @LMPD air unit on top of a downtown parking garage just before 11 pm Sunday. SWAT found the men but didn't charge them because this is not a crime. Their guns were taken until they can prove ownership.
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Jason Riley
2 years
The officers knew that the suspected drug dealer, Jamarcus Glover, had not been making "frequent trips" to Taylor's home in recent months or using her address as his, as was written in the affidavit for the search warrant.
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Jason Riley
5 years
It’s a small sample size, but the data from this year suggests I’d watch so much more NFL football if all the teams had UofL quarterbacks.
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Jason Riley
2 years
This shows how good UofL can be when they don’t have to warm up listening to Kid Rock songs
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Jason Riley
6 months
THAT’S for the last 68 basketball games UVA!
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Jason Riley
4 years
If you think I bought these hideous pants not to wear them once a year, you though wrong my friends. Happy Derby
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5 years
omg
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22 days
Hiring a former player as your coach? I honestly don’t see what could go wrong.
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Jason Riley
6 years
UK gonna go to the final four by basically winning a MEAC conference tournament
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Jason Riley
2 years
Goodlett also knew that the reasons Jaynes requested a no-knock warrant were false. "The detective had absolutely no reason to believe that Taylor was a drug trafficker, or that she had ever tried to destroy evidence or flee from law enforcement, or that there were any cameras”
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6 years
Ok, but this kid rules
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7 years
"Only Louisville is considered a serious contender as it stands right now" Sources: NBA Expansion Looming
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3 years
. @LMPD has sent a letter of termination to Det. Joshua Jaynes for lying to a judge on a search warrant affidavit used to raid #BreonnaTaylor ’s home in March. He will have a chance to present mitigating factors to police chief on Dec. 31. Background:
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5 years
Cunningham was a treat this year
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5 years
CRAWFORD | Cunningham on his time at Louisville: 'It was the best year of my life'... @ericcrawford
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4 years
. @GovAndyBeshear says he can't control the Attorney General's office or a grand jury. But he says injustices and inequalities must be addressed, create a world without racism and oppression. "There is so much more work to be done," he said. "My job is to continue to listen"
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Jason Riley
6 years
I am NOT an attorney but I'm 99.9 percent sure U of L gets the 2013 trophy and banner back while this case is pending. And everyone also has to say U of L won three titles. Fans will not have further comment because it is pending litigation.
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6 years
Wait, what’s happening here?
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7 years
A UofL assistant coach acknowledged to defendants that since the university was on probation, they needed to keep it on down low WOW
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7 years
"Coach-1 agreed, stating, 'we gotta be very low key"
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Jason Riley
4 years
A judge has ruled that a grand juror in the #BreonnaTaylor case can talk about the case
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Jason Riley
6 years
“Metro Corrections says the pair hid in food waste trash cans that were then taken outside the facility for disposal.” This seems like how you escape from jail in the 1930s
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6 years
. @LMPD is looking for 2 minimum security inmates that escaped from Louisville Metro Corrections Saturday night
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2 years
The Kentucky Supreme Court denied @DanielCameronAG 's request to convict a woman who stole $80 from a Walmart self-checkout scanner w/ a felony. Shoplifting under $500 is a misdemeanor, but Cameron's office argued it should be charged as "unlawful access to a computer, a felony.
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