PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) - A former Port Orchard Police officer’s formal reprimand for how he handled evidence in a sexual assault investigation has been overturned.
The Kitsap Sun reports (https://bit.ly/25NxBPq ) that Marvin KcKinney, who now works as an officer for the University of Washington Police Department, had his discipline reversed last month by an arbitrator.
McKinney had been reprimanded for mishandling a cheek swab taken from a man suspected of raping a Port Orchard woman in December 2007. The case languished for seven years before it was discovered it had been overlooked.
McKinney was not blamed for the delay.
The arbitrator found that McKinney’s discipline was harsher than that imposed upon similar employees and that there was no evidence of any misconduct by McKinney since the incident.
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Information from: Kitsap Sun, https://www.kitsapsun.com/
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