The real question is whether the judge should be charged as a co conspirator in the death of the boy.
Time to impeach the judge. I cannot imagine a judge worried about the defendant harming the family and then granting bail. What is the matter with people? Is common sense that uncommon?
White defendant, brown victim, Oklahoma. Can you imagine it now?
Tiowally: you nailed the reason right there! Judge needs to step down in disgrace.
I would imagine that if the defendant had a darker skin color, he’d still be in custody. Well, Oklahoma is yet another place I will avoid in the near future. The list gets longer every day.
So this Judge thought giving a stern verbal warning to this guy would put an end to the danger. The man mowed down a person with a car…but a stern warning was going to make it all OK? I hope that asshole in a robe can’t sleep at night.
The judge’s terrible error made the case for taking justice into your own hands to protect you and your’s.
Which is what the headline actually indicates…
I know of another case in the general area where exactly that happened. The middle-schooler escaped out the window…
[This][1] woman.
And this one [too.][2]
[Yet another.][3]
Those are all close to Tulsa, and in each case there were judges and/or LO who didn’t think letting the guy out was a particularly big deal in spite of previous and ongoing attempts to murder the victim.
Is it like this everywhere? Is it a cultural thing?
[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/16/domestic-violence_n_5474177.html
[2]: http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/arkansas-man-to-stand-trial-in-barry-county-double-homicide/article_354b02b5-8b31-5203-8dcb-aca20908e894.html
[3]: http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/police-investigate-apparent-murder-suicide-
OOOOk-lahoma, where the judge comes sweepin’ out the jail…,
Male, female too. My gut instinct tells me that that is at least a big a deal.
(Yes I know the murder victim was a man, but the woman was the object of his previous attempt. The judge put the guy who had been harassing her and threatening her and who ran her down and left her for dead right back next door to his victim. Which sadly is the way things seem to be in that neck of the woods.)
Great, now he can go home and finish the job…
Is that judge insane???
Not insane, from Oklahoma.
He said all those things and didn’t impose any of them as a condition. Lesson: this is not how you cover your ass when you believe the guy you’re releasing is going to do something bad.
So, having made one fatal mistake, the criminal justice system is going for a two-fer…
No, just an Okie.
I wonder if the Jabara family is related to James Jabara, an Air Force fighter pilot who shot down 15 Migs in Korea, the second highest score of any American pilot in Korea. James Jabara was also from Oklahoma – Muskogee – and the name is not a common one. There’s an airport named for Jabara near Witchita.
People, while I am in sympathy with your disgust the fact of the matter is that if someone is able to pay bail they can go free while still presumed to be innocent. The judge would need credible evidence that the person intended to do harm again to suspend their freedom. It is disgusting that stuff like this happens but the alternative is keeping people who are presumed to be innocent locked up. This guy is a scumbag but the legal system has to try to remain impartial whatever the judges feelings.
[Edit: Just read the Tulsa World article, I didn’t know he’d already had a restraining order against him when he hit his neighbor with a car… that changes things. This judge should be in trouble.]
Yeah, he didn’t just hit her, he ran her down and left her for dead. A neighbor found her shoes 40 feet away…then her.
No way should he have been out of jail, period, much less next door. And he murdered her son right after the police left, knowing he was in his house, after threatening her again.
The judge used to be (like Inhoffe) Mayor of Tulsa.