[WATCH] Records Indicate Sevier County Official Resisted Charging Deputy in Drunken Rampage

November 5th, 2017

Awake Goy

J.W. Parker had video evidence of a man rampaging in Parker’s bar, but he was told he couldn’t pursue criminal charges because the accused was a sheriff’s deputy, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee.

Parker and his mother, Barbara Parker, sought charges for more than a month against James M. Schirnglone, who was captured on video — while off duty from his job as a Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputy — uprooting a table from its moorings and appearing to take a swipe at the mother inside the Parkers’ bar in Gatlinburg in August, records show.

Sevier County’s chief judicial commissioner, Albert Snyder, didn’t deny the details outlined in the records but refused to comment on why his staff twice turned the Parkers away without even holding a probable cause hearing as required by law.

“I am not going to discuss that with the media,” Snyder said.

The press for prosecution:

Schirnglone, 43, resigned from his job as a deputy as his bosses were poised to fire him over his behavior inside and outside Salty Bear Raw Bar in August. A Gatlinburg Police Department report stated the then-deputy was drunk and cursed at police officers who encountered him a short time after he and his friends were ordered to leave the bar.

The agency didn’t charge him. Police Chief Randy Brackins did not return calls about why.

The Parkers, according to the police report, sought charges of vandalism and assault based on surveillance video of Schirnglone’s behavior at the bar.

Judicial commissioners are paid by taxpayers to hold hearings to determine if a citizen or a police officer has presented enough proof to show that a crime was probably committed and the person accused probably committed it. It’s a low standard in the legal system known as “probable cause.”

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