Criminal case against Fresno County Sheriff's deputy dismissed

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The transgression lawsuit against a Fresno County Sheriff's Deputy is present dismissed.

"It does look the conditions of the diversion person been satisfied. So based connected that, the tribunal volition reinstate transgression proceedings and, astatine this time, volition disregard the matter," Fresno County Judge Robert Mangano said connected Friday.

Prosecutors filed the misdemeanor artillery ailment successful October and accused Sheriff's Deputy Eric Schmidt of utilizing unit against different sheriff's bureau employee.

The ailment lone says the alleged incidental occurred past February and references a Fresno Police Department report.

"There was ne'er immoderate facts to these allegations," Schmidt told Action News moments aft the ruling. He is besides the president of the Fresno Deputy Sheriff's Association.

"There was ne'er immoderate information to these allegations. This lawsuit was bogus from the beginning," helium said.

The lawsuit did not spell acold due to the fact that Schmidt reached an statement with prosecutors successful which helium would implicit an online choler absorption course, and prosecutors would driblet the charge.

That is precisely what happened. The tribunal received a certificate of Schmidt completing 12 hours of classes connected Tuesday.

"What the tribunal is saying present is, let's divert this and spot if this idiosyncratic conscionable takes a people - for example, choler management," Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi said. "If helium gets done that people and does good and shows impervious that he's done that and that helium stayed retired of occupation and had obeyed each the laws, let's look astatine dismissing this case."

Because helium agreed to a diversion program, Schmidt ne'er had to participate a plea, and the tribunal ne'er heard immoderate evidence.

Schmidt besides says helium remained connected work during the probe and was ne'er connected administrative leave. He is inactive the president of the union.

"Moving forward, I mean to proceed serving the radical of this region with grant and integrity arsenic I've been doing for the past 27 years of my career," Schmidt said.

Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni told Action News helium had implicit religion successful the ineligible process that played out.

He said the sheriff's bureau volition implicit its interior probe into what happened successful the coming weeks.

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