Controlled substance trial for Anchorage nurse practitioner starts this week

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The trial for an Anchorage nurse practitioner begins Wednesday.

Kris Kile faces charges of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second and third degree related to oxycodone, fentanyl, and meperidine.

Manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges were dismissed and Kile is no longer charged with an Anchorage woman’s death in 2015.

Monday morning a potential pool of jury members sat before the prosecutors and defense. They were asked what they thought of the opioid crisis as well as addiction, and if they had any negative experiences with having previously being on a jury.

At least one person, a nurse, wasn’t picked for the jury.

Kile had been charged with manslaughter for the death of Courtney Jones, 22, who died in 2015 after police say she had been using opioids, which Kile, a nurse practitioner at the time, was accused by police of giving Jones.

March 6, 2020, Anchorage prosecutors indicted Kile on 18 felony counts, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, plus more than a dozen drug distribution counts.

News reports from 2020 said Kile was being investigated for Medicaid fraud, and that’s when the death of Jones was investigated again, which then led to manslaughter charges against Kile in 2020.

But, in the meantime, the evidence was gone.

The manslaughter charge was dismissed after a judge’s suppression order was issued when key evidence was destroyed by Anchorage police and labs, according to online records and the former prosecuting attorney on the case, James Fayette.

It’s unclear if those charges against Kile will be filed again, according to court records reviewed by Alaska’s News Source Investigates.

Jury members were told to expect a trial going until the middle of May.

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