LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A former Louisville Metro Police Detective has been indicted on charges of first-degree perjury and tampering with physical evidence.
According to court documents, a Jefferson County grand jury returned the indictments against Mark Handy on Wednesday.Â
Hardin County Commonwealth Attorney Shane Young, the special prosecutor assigned to the case, said in an interview the perjury charge is related to Handy's actions in Feb. 1995, in the Edwin Chandler case.
Chandler spent nine years in prison for a 1993 murder he didn't commit. He was exonerated in 2012. Metro Government went on to pay him $8.5 million.
"I was interrogated by a police officer, Mark Handy," Chandler said back in March, when he spoke before Louisville Metro Council members. "And in that interrogation, I gave a false confession, and the reason I gave that false confession, primarily, is because I was threatened by Mr. Handy that he would take my sister's children away ... that he would have her locked up."
Young said the allegation of tampering with physical evidence stems from Handy's Feb. 1992 handling of the Keith West case. West was accused in a 1992 double homicide. According to Young, he's accused of altering evidence in the case.
Handy is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on Oct. 22.
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