Posted on 04/23/2022 8:19:43 AM PDT by Morgana
A judge in Texas was forced to hit the panic button in her court and call in security after the brother of a murdered teenager attacked the 17-year-old accused of killing her.
Judge Hazel Jones had to call for security at her courtroom in Houston after Abel Alvarez flew at Frank DeLeon, 17, over the January 11 murder of Alvarez's sister Diamond Alvarez, 16.
Diamond was shot 22 times as she walked the family dog, Peanut, near her home.
Her on-off boyfriend DeLeon, 17, was arrested on January 17 and charged with her murder.
DeLeon was freed on a $250,000 bond, but was taken back into custody on Monday after his ankle monitor showed he had left house arrest without alerting authorities. His family said it was to go to church; the Alvarez family said the church was closed on Monday.
'You have to remember the emotion in this family is high,' said Cesar Espinosa, an advocate for immigrants with FIEL, the largest immigrant rights organization in Texas (Familias Inmigrantes y Estudiantes en la Lucha).
'We ask the public to put yourself in this family's shoes. What would you do if you had to face your daughter's killer in court?'
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&*&^*&(*)(*(W*W(_#))_#_)(_#**__ The Judge should get the death penalty also. Short rope, longer drop.
In the eyes of a just God, justice must be meted out on Earth. Not vengeance, but justice.
I’ve got a degree in English and I read it three times and finally had to read the article to find out what happened. It raises misplaced modifiers to an art form.
He should have gotten a pension befitting a retired Judge.
Indeed. And a retired executioner.
And likely they are.
I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to hear he met his Maker in the near future.
He still has time.
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