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!
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Rhino
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