Did Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron tell the truth about his office’s presentation to the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case? We could soon find out.
Hours after a jury member accused Cameron of using the grand jury as a “shield to deflect accountability and responsibility,” the attorney general announced Monday that he will comply with a judge’s order and release a recording of the proceedings. Any recordings of what prosecutors presented to the grand jury, as well as witness testimony, will be turned over to the court by Wednesday and added to the court’s case file.
As CBS News reports, Cameron personally disagrees with the decision, telling the outlet in a statement that the grand jury “is meant to be a secretive body.”
“It’s apparent that the public interest in this case isn’t going to allow that to happen.”
he said.
According to Cameron, the release of the recordings will also satisfy the request of a grand jury member, who earlier on Monday filed a notice of a motion (pdf) asking for the recordings to be released and for jurors to speak freely about the process. The notice, considered “tremendously uncommon” by legal experts, suggests that Cameron’s public comments about the case do not align with what his office presented to the grand jury.
In the notice, the juror said Cameron, who served as a special prosecutor in the Taylor case,
“attempted to make it very clear that the grand jury alone made the decision on who and what to charge based solely on the evidence presented to them.”
“The citizens of this Commonwealth have demonstrated their lack of faith in the process and proceedings in this matter and the justice system itself,”
the motion said.
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