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Subject: Re: Judge doesn't allow defendant to commit additional crimes in
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:35:22 -0400
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On 2025-03-24 11:40 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> A number of YouTube channels feature content fron Judge Fleischer's
> courtroom, Harris County (Houston), Texas. This guy had been a defense
> attorney before becoming a judge. He's compassionate and fair to
> both prosecution and defense. He's particularly thinking of protecting
> the citizens of Harris County from violent persons.
> 
> In my state, we hear of judge after judge after judge ignoring
> violations of bonds for earlier pending cases, or ignoring that a
> convicted felon is violating terms of probation and parole.
> 
> We do murder charges on ankle monitors, sigh.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVcJFMVrXo
> 
> I love his probable cause hearings when the prosecution has an absurdly
> weak case.

Here in Canada, our judges have been directed *by law* to give bail in 
all but the most serious of cases. (That was an innovation of the 
Trudeau Liberals after Steven Harper had tried to tighten bail 
conditions.) It should be noted that committing a new crime while you're 
out on bail is NOT a justification for denying you bail on the new 
offence or getting you remanded on the original offence. Nearly every 
story I've read for the past few years about a criminal being arrested 
reveals that he or she was out on bail for a previous offence (or 
several!). THIS is what we've been dealing with since Trudeau fooled 
voters into electing him. As you can imagine, crime is way up from what 
it was.

As for ankle monitors, I remember a story a few years back where a 
youngish man had sexually assaulted and nearly murdered a woman. The 
judge sentenced him to house arrest and he was supposed to stay at his 
uncle's house. It soon became known that he was out and about very 
frequently. A hidden camera by a documentary crew soon determined that 
these rumours were true. The story they did showed him getting on the 
bus nearest his uncle's house and heading off to wherever. I remember 
wondering how the ankle monitor going off failed to notify the police. I 
seem to remember hearing that they hadn't bothered with an ankle monitor 
and just took his uncle's word for it that the offender wouldn't go out!

-- 
Rhino