Airman found not guilty in Percocet case

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Airman found not guilty in Percocet case
By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, November 17, 2007

OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — An Air Force police officer accused of giving prescription painkillers to a fellow airman was found not guilty Thursday at Osan Air Base.

Airman 1st Class Jeremy Kyner, of Osan’s 51st Security Forces Squadron, had been charged with wrongful distribution of a controlled substance — the painkiller Percocet.

The jury of five Air Force officers — a lieutenant colonel, two majors and two captains — returned the verdict at 3:11 p.m. in a court-martial that began Wednesday before military judge Lt. Col. Gregory Friedland.

Kyner was the sixth airman from his squadron to be court-martialed on Percocet-related charges and is the only one to have been acquitted.

The prosecution’s case against Kyner had turned heavily on testimony from an airman currently serving a jail sentence for his Oct. 7 Percocet abuse conviction.

The witness, Airman Chance W. Slaughter, testified that earlier this year, he asked Kyner for Percocet and that Kyner gave him two pills on one occasion and several more on another.


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