Former Louisville detective who helped incarcerate innocent men agrees to plead guilty, go to prison

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A former Louisville police detective accused of framing several people for murders they didn’t commit has agreed to plead guilty to perjury and tampering with physical evidence and spend one year behind bars.

Former Louisville detective who helped incarcerate innocent men agrees to plead guilty, go to prison
Former Det. Mark Handy has agreed to plead guilty to perjury and tampering with physical evidence and spend one year in prison.
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https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/former-louisville-detective-who-helped-incarcerate-innocent-men-agrees-to-plead-guilty-go-to-prison/article_41ca9a02-90d9-11eb-8130-c34fa0bcb12e.html

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – A former Louisville police detective accused of framing several people for murders they didn’t commit has agreed to plead guilty to perjury and tampering with physical evidence and spend one year behind bars.

Under the plea deal, Mark Handy agrees not to seek probation for his one-year prison sentence.

The perjury charge involves lying on the stand during a murder trial. Handy also acknowledges he tampered with physical evidence by erasing an interview in a separate case, according to the plea deal in court records.

However, the proposed plea agreement between Handy’s defense attorneys and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office still must be approved on April 5 by Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens.

In August, Stevens rejected a plea deal that would have included no prison time for Handy.

Handy had previously agreed to a plea deal on a charge of felony perjury related to a 1995 case that put Edwin Chandler in prison nearly a decade for a murder he didn't commit. But the tampering with physical evidence charge in another case had been dismissed.

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They should add up all the time the innocent people were sentenced to, triple it, and make him serve it......

[MagickMuffin]

1. Gee and what race were these innocent victims?

Edwin Chandler Race: AA spent almost 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.


There weren't links for the others and didn't want to research further.


I believe the sentence should reflect all the years people spent behind bars to Mark Hardy. He robbed these victims of a life and now he gets to spend one full year in jail.

Once again, No justice.

[Solly Mack]

2. One year? For depriving multiple people of their civil rights?

For perjury in multiple cases? For tampering with evidence in multiple cases? For obstructing justice in multiple cases? For ruining lives?
Using his position as a cop to intentionally harm people?

SMH.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Yes, that is just mind-bogglingly fucked up and wrong ... WOW (nt)

[Midnightwalk]

4. Max penalty was only 5 years

That’s way too low.

They say it was a hard case, but the first plea deal had no prison time and the judge said no.

I think he has colleagues who think he is getting a raw deal. The rot goes deep.