KALAMAZOO, MI (WNWN/WTVB) – Former Fabius Township Supervisor Kenneth Dwyane Linn was convicted of four counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court on Thursday following a trial which lasted a week.
The 58-year-old Linn is scheduled to be sentenced on April 16.
Linn was convicted of assaulting a woman who was 22-years-old at the time in her Portage apartment following a 2010 golf outing at Sauganash Country Club in Three Rivers while she was physically helpless due to extreme intoxication and unable to give consent, resulting in physical injury.
Linn was charged in October of 2022 by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting following a Kalamazoo Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.
A sexual assault nurse exam was performed the day after the assault. During the exam, the registered nurse collected samples from the women and preserved them in a sexual assault evidence collection kit.
The kit was not submitted to the Michigan State Police Forensics Lab until December 2014. It was ultimately returned to the Portage Police Department untested in late January 2015.
In 2016, as part of the state-wide Sexual Assault Kit testing initiative, the Portage Police Department submitted the victim’s SAK to Sorenson Forensics Lab in Utah for DNA testing.
In October 2021, Kalamazoo SAKI received approval from the MSP Forensics Lab to resubmit the victim’s SAK for further testing. The results of that analysis led to charges against Linn.
Since 2013 the Michigan Legislature has appropriated funds to the Attorney General’s office for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting cases that arise from previously untested sexual assault kits.
Special Assistant Attorney General Erin House prosecuted the case against Linn.
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