POST rejects effort to strip Hutchison’s certification {ex-Knox County Sheriff}

Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 8/21/7 | Tom Humphrey

[SmithL]

NASHVILLE — A state commission has rejected an effort to strip former Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison of his certification as a law enforcement officer, but a lawyer says the decision will be challenged in court.

Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission voted last Friday to dismiss a complaint filed against Hutchison and “rescinded the decertification” imposed temporarily by a judge earlier, said Brian Grisham, executive director of the panel.

Grisham said today the action means that, as far as the POST Commission is concerned, the matter has been put to rest.

But Knoxville attorney Herbert S. Moncier, who filed a lawsuit asking that Hutchison be decertified and barred from receiving an $80,000 year pension, said he was surprised by the commission action and believes it is contrary to the judge’s ruling.

The POST Commission ruling will now be challenged in Davidson County Chancery Court, Moncier said.

[SmithL]

Moncier has made a career out of attacking former sheriff, Tim Hutchison. In June, he found an activist judge in Nashville who directed POST to decertify Hutchison. Apparently, POST doesn't need Ellen Hobbs Lyle telling them how to do their jobs.

[SmithL]

Follow-up to: { Knox County ex-Sheriff } Hutchison decertified

[cva66snipe]

Moncier and the activist judge forget it was the citizens of Knox County who elected Hutchinson to a fifth term. The man stepped on some political toes no doubt and even some citizens over such issues as the firing range. I know quite a bit about the area where the New Penal Farm is as it is across the railroad tracks from the old one. The majority land owner or biggest land owner is/was Knox County.

The new Penal Farm sits on former Hillcrest Nursing Home and before that the George Maloney Farm or the Poor Farm with an insane asylum for criminally insane that also operated on that property called Cedar Crest that closed in the 1960's I think. A very spooky place to go into LOL. I saw the places on the concrete walls for shackles. I worked for Hillcrest at one time and the old building was used for storage. It has always at least for a good part of 75 years or more been public land a parcel of several hundred acres.

I think using the land for actual needed functions of government is money much better used {much of it used was not taxpayer funds for a lot of the projects in question} than a county operated golf course which also occupies the same land now.

Sheriff vs County Commissioner disagreements are a way of life in East Tennessee these days. The services in question were for his departments usage including badly needed helicopters which IIRC were donated surplus. This took a burdern off a local hospitals medical choppers which when not on mission were often called into duty for search and rescuse operations. Hutchinson also allowed mutual aid services from the choppers to other counties if aviable

P.O.S.T. has done the right thing and Moncier needs to come off his high horse on this matter. He didn't seem to care anymore about till the events of Greeneville popped up for him. Then all of the sudden it is an emergency? BTW Hutchinson's facilities were also under the scrutiny of the Knox County Grand Jury who inspects all such facilities.