Seattle Times:

A Seattle police officer whose firing over a 2007 domestic-violence incident was later overturned, has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit alleging the department failed to give him a fair hearing and damaged his reputation.

Felton Miles, a 20-year department veteran, was fired by former Chief Gil Kerlikowske in 2007 after he was arrested and charged with felony harassment of his ex-wife and her boyfriend at her Mill Creek home.

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However, a Snohomish County jury deadlocked 10-2 to acquit Miles during a 2008 trial, and he eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge to avoid retrial.

The city's Public Safety Civil Service Commission later that year disagreed with the firing, saying that merely being charged with a crime shouldn't be sufficient reason for termination. Two of the three commissioners concluded the department had evidence to suspend Miles, but not to fire him.