An Anchorage nurse practitioner, who previously faced manslaughter charges in connection to the death of a woman in Anchorage, was found guilty today for lesser charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second and third degree related to oxycodone, fentanyl and meperidine.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Anchorage nurse practitioner, who previously faced manslaughter charges in connection to the death of a woman in Anchorage, was found guilty today for lesser charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second and third degree related to oxycodone, fentanyl and meperidine.
After numerous delays, and slow starts throughout this trial, Friday afternoon a jury reached guilty verdicts on all but one count. Manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges were dismissed against Kile for the death of Courtney Jones, 22, who died in 2015 after police say she had been using opioids, which Kile was accused by law enforcement of giving to Jones. On March 6, 2020, Anchorage prosecutors indicted Kile on 18 felony counts, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, plus more than a dozen drug distribution counts. The manslaughter and homicide charges were dismissed after a judge’s suppression order was issued when key evidence was destroyed by Anchorage police and labs, according to online records and the former prosecuting attorney on the case, James Fayette. Court documents reviewed by Alaska’s News source Investigates say that “blood, urine and vitreous samples were sent to an outside laboratory for testing. Because nobody requested that the laboratory preserve these samples, they were likely discarded as a matter of lab policy sometime in 2016.” The court emphasized the state intentionally destroyed evidence in this case, although there was “no evidence to suggest that this was done with the intention to hide evidence.” The court specifically found that “the State likely did not act in bad faith when destroying the evidence,” according to court documents.After the charges were dropped Kile emailed Alaska’s News Source requesting two stories regarding her association with Jones be removed from the station website and wrote the “entire case was built on false pretenses,” and “This case isn’t just about me. It’s about every provider who could be criminalized for doing their job. And every citizen who thinks the State should be held accountable.”Woman charged after police find 71 dogs living in ‘unimaginable conditions’
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