Or, "How's that bail reform working out?" A new bond court judge debuts with a fresh mindset that restrains victims and frees violent men on recognizance bonds - CWB Chicago
One of the new Bond Court Judges in Cook County (Chicago) is Kelly McCarthy. She doesn't like to hold people for violent crimes.
McCarthy set bail for 27 defendants during the session. She gave 22 of them recognizance bonds — including two charged with felony robbery. She refused to grant prosecutors’ requests to have several defendants held without bail, including one charged with attempted murder for allegedly beating, stomping, and choking his pregnant girlfriend for 20 minutes.
But that’s not all. In one case, even though nobody asked for it, McCarthy took the unprecedented step of ordering a robbery victim to show up in court to be served with an order to protect the man who allegedly robbed her at gunpoint.
What? A violent felon gets an order of protection against his victim? I would say only in Chicago, but the truth is that there are a whole bunch of insane judges in the big cities.
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