Posted on 11/07/2018 1:59:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
After losing his bench in a Democratic sweep the night before, Harris County Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin released nearly all of the youthful defendants that appeared in front him on Wednesday morning, simply asking the kids whether they planned to kill anyone before letting them go.
"He was releasing everybody," said public defender Steven Halpert, who watched the string of surprising releases. "Apparently he was saying that's what the voters wanted."
The long-time Republican jurist is one of two judges whose track record of favoring incarceration contributed heavily to doubling the number of kids Harris County sent to the Texas Juvenile Justice Department in recent years, even as those figures fell in the rest of the state.
Together, he and Judge John Phillips accounted for more than one-fifth of all children sent to the state's juvenile prisons last year.
Those two jurists not only sent more teens to juvenile prison, but they also sent them younger and for less-serious offenses than the county's third juvenile court, where Judge Mike Schneider presides.
But despite the differences in their courtroom practices, all three of the juvenile judges lost their benches to Democrats in Tuesday's election by at least 10-point spreads.
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The spin on this move will have a lot of wobble. Better to let the Dems do it themselves.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Harris county. All elected officials and judges are now democrat. Good luck with that.
The only solution is for the large urban areas to become city-states and the rest of us will live according to our values. Let them create their socialist paradise and see how long it lasts.
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