The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has decided not to file criminal-assault charges against the two recently fired Seattle police officers who unleashed a barrage of gunshots at a fleeing car in an Eastlake neighborhood alley last year, wounding the driver and a passenger.
Under state law that existed at the time of the Oct. 8 incident, prosecutors would be unable to prove the former officers, Kenneth Martin and Tabitha Sexton, acted with malice or a lack of good faith,
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