LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The 12-person jury is set in Brett Hankison's federal retrial connected to his actions the night Louisville Metro Police (LMPD) shot and killed Breonna Taylor.
The former LMPD detective's trial begins on Monday with opening statements.
The jury is made up of eight women and seven men. One juror is Black, which was also the case in Hankison's first federal trial that ended in a hung jury and a mistrial last November.
Both prosecutors and defense attorneys approve of the jury makeup, but people like Kamal Wells, Taylor's cousin, tell WHAS11 they're disappointed in the lack of diversity on the panel.
"We feel like they cut us deep and they pouring salt on the wound," Tyrone Bell, Taylor's uncle, told WHAS11 on Thursday as jury selection was happening.
Louisville attorney and former federal prosecutor Brian Butler, who isn't associated with the case, explained juries in federal trials come from surrounding counties as well.
"The jury pool is brought not just from Jefferson County, which is about 22% African-American," Butler said. "You have surrounding counties which are much more heavily white than Jefferson County is, so statistically you would assume that there would be one or two African-Americans on the jury in federal court."
The end of jury selection comes as Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings is still weighing whether to allow testimony of what prosecutors call Hankison's prior 'aggressive' acts as a cop before 2020.
The judge heard arguments in a three-hour hearing Friday afternoon, which started soon after the jury was dismissed for the day.
Federal prosecutors, in a last-ditch effort Friday, called on a former SWAT commander who had once trained Hankison in the past and his former supervisor to the stand. The prosecutors' goal was to prove Hankison has put other people, including fellow officers, in harms way when he drew a gun at two separate SWAT responses in 2016 and 2017.
Hankison's attorneys argue that there isn't any written proof he violated policy or was disciplined for his actions.
As of Friday evening, the judge hasn't made her decision on whether to allow this evidence into trial. She originally denied the request last week, leaving room to be convinced.
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