Knox County District Attorney Charme Allen has fired an assistant district attorney for posts he made on social media.

WVLT reporting Allen fired Berkley Mason, who had been working with the office after graduating from the University of Tennessee in 2024. 

Allen says “Today, I learned that Assistant District Attorney Berkley Mason maintains a social media account where he has made statements such as, “What ever reason we can make up to get as many of them out as possible…. Whatever means necessary,” Allen’s Monday statement said. “Statements like this indicate a willingness to ‘make up’ false evidence and circumvent the law in order to achieve a particular goal by ‘whatever means necessary.’”

Allen says “Statements like this indicate a willingness to ‘make up’ false evidence and circumvent the law by ‘whatever means necessary.’” She continued “This post, as well as others, undermines my confidence in his ability to uphold his oath as a prosecutor to ‘administer justice without respect of person and impartially discharge all of the duties incumbent upon [a prosecutor]”.

Allen added that the post she had quoted was not the only one to raise questions.

Mason’s firing will have repercussions for several cases. Allen intends to order a review for each case he handled.