Inquest jurors will determine if officers followed department policy or crossed the line into what King County calls “criminal means.”
King County Executive Dow Constantine signed the new inquest system into law last year after the Washington Supreme Court agreed to reform a system Constantine said was biased in favor of the police.
“It seeks to establish what could be done, what could be changed, to prevent this tragedy from repeating itself,” Constantine said in 2021. Police officers are required to testify in the new inquest system, and attorneys who represent them say that’s unfair because they could be potentially charged with a crime.
“It’s putting our law enforcement officers out there literally putting their lives on the line in a position that affords them less protection than a criminal suspect,” said attorney Ted Buck.Any decision about filing criminal charges is up to prosecutors.Seven inquests have been ordered so far, and dozens more are pending.
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