Supreme Court To Hear Case

{Louisville, Kentucky}…The Kentucky Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case that could determine what responsibility Kentucky State Police have when they employ a confidential informant. In July 1996, LeBron Gaither testified before a grand jury against Jason Noel, who was later indicted on a drug charge. The next day, detectives reunited Gaither and Noel for a controlled drug buy. Gaither got into a car in Taylorsville for the buy unaware a grand juror had tipped off Noel to his role as a police informant. Gaither was found dead in Casey County. He had been tortured, stabbed, beaten, dragged and killed. The Kentucky Board of Claims determined in 2009 that the state was 30 percent liable for Gaither's death and awarded Gaither's family $168,000, but a Franklin Circuit judge overturned that decision in 2011, and the Kentucky Court of Appeals rejected the award in May.