From here:
Defense attorney Barry Dynice said Tavares had no history of failing to show up for court, had a sister in the area with whom he could live and had volunteered for electronic monitoring.The defense attorney also told the judge that Tavares had a fiancée in Washington State and that the attorney had corresponded with her.
The judge declined to order a monitoring system, saying she was presented with no evidence he was a flight risk. She ordered him freed on the condition that he call probation officers three times a week, live with his sister and work.
“It is the court’s view that Mr. Tavares has wrapped his sentence on the underlying offense,” Tuttman said, according to a transcript of the hearing. “He doesn’t have a history of any defaults on his record. And there is no indication before the court based on the representations of counsel and the record before me that he is a risk of flight, other than the nature and circumstances of the charges,”
maybe the rule should be that any judge that paroles a violent offender must turn their own house into a half way house and let that person stay in the room right next to theirs for the first 5 weeks. If they feel comfortable with that then they can release the person into the community.