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Illinois parole official quits after police say a freed felon attacked a woman and killed her son
Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | March 25, 2024 | JOHN O'CONNOR

Posted on 03/25/2024 2:57:00 PM PDT by grundle

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state parole board member resigned Monday after recommending the release of a man who a day later attacked a pregnant Chicago woman with a knife and fatally stabbed her 11-year-old son while he tried to protect her, according to authorities.

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board's handling of the case prompted Gov. J.B. Pritzker to order that procedures for dealing with situations involving domestic violence be revamped.

Pritzker announced that LeAnn Miller, 63, of Junction submitted her resignation. Miller had prepared a report recommending Crosetti Brand's release from prison.

The 37-year-old felon had repeatedly violated orders of protection and threatened Laterria Smith of Chicago, police said. On March 13, investigators said that Brand went to Smith's apartment armed with a knife and assaulted her. When her son, Jayden Perkins, intervened, Brand stabbed him to death, police said.

Smith, 33, remains hospitalized in critical condition but doctors expect her and her unborn child to live. Her 6-year-old son was present during the attack but was uninjured.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bleedingheart; illinois; paroleboard
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For the first time that I am aware of, a person on a parole board is actually being held accountable for releasing a violent serial criminal who later went on to commit another violent crime.

I love this kind of accountability.

1 posted on 03/25/2024 2:57:00 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

IMO, the parole board should have to be accountable for the
crimes these people commit.

I would say that for DAs that let folks off without bail
too.

If the criminal pulls off a major crime, these people should
have to face the music too.

I can’t say exactly what the terms should be, but the days
of them turning folks lose on society, particularly families,
women, & children, should be over. Men too of course...


2 posted on 03/25/2024 3:04:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: grundle

Wish this was the standard.


3 posted on 03/25/2024 3:04:59 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: grundle
It looks like Miller was thrown under the bus to distract attention away from the fact Gov J. B. Pritzker is where the buck stops.
4 posted on 03/25/2024 3:05:29 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: grundle

The cost of keeping people in prison is equivalent to sending your kid to an ivy league school. The budget is only so big, so they have to figure out who to keep and who to let go. Probably, 90% of the people in prison really need to be there because they represent a danger to society. In this case, some of them who should not be released are going to be released.

Now, as for the budget, if the DOJ says you have provide sex change surgery and God knows what else, it is going to greatly increase the medical cost of the prison population, that is draining the fund required for providing meals and basic requirements. Therefore, part of the budget problem is political. Another thing is the “death” penalty. If the guy lives twenty or thirty years before it is caried out, he is part of the problem of not being able to keep really bad actors in prison. A lot of the problems could be solved if there was any political will to do so. There isn’t.


5 posted on 03/25/2024 3:09:20 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: grundle

Finally, somebody with a conscience. It’s extremely rare. I truly wish laws would be established to hold District Attorneys, Judges, and Attorney Generals criminally responsible, along with the violent offenders they’ve released to the street, and who commit another crime within a short period of time. They need to be held accountable for their stupidity.


6 posted on 03/25/2024 3:09:25 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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LeAnn Miller, parole official.

7 posted on 03/25/2024 3:11:10 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: jeffersondem

see its ok when your hapless deranged liberal view doesn’t effect you and only effects others, right? sadly the 11 years old had to pay for her stupidity


8 posted on 03/25/2024 3:12:11 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Liz

That’s a woman?!


9 posted on 03/25/2024 3:15:01 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Condolences to family and friends of Jayden Perkins. Crosetti Brand back to prison? Death penalty? Death is not a “penalty”. It’s justice.


10 posted on 03/25/2024 3:17:36 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: No name given

** is that a woman?” ***

No, it’s a box of rocks.


11 posted on 03/25/2024 3:18:17 PM PDT by Surrounded_too (LE)
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To: grundle
Resigning is not enough. The serious irreversible consequences of her
reckless actions require seppuku as her only just path to atonement.

12 posted on 03/25/2024 3:18:43 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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she’s 63?


13 posted on 03/25/2024 3:24:53 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: Liz

Target acquired....would be a shame if she was stabbed to death getting her newspaper/mail.


14 posted on 03/25/2024 3:32:18 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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I love this kind of accountability.

It wasn't her fault. Her intentions were good.

You must never judge Lefties by the consequences of their actions, only their intentions.

15 posted on 03/25/2024 3:37:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████s████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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No worries, she can be replaced easily.

Meet LaVonda Jackson, who is on Pritzer’s short list for the board. She is offering to parole any male willing to, ahem, clean her pipes.



She was quoted to say “Fo’git Black Lives Matter - mah Black Sexlife Matters mo’!
16 posted on 03/25/2024 3:39:48 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: grundle

They held themselves accountable, no one else did.


17 posted on 03/25/2024 3:41:35 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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LeAnn, uber liberal idiot, doing what all liberals do, screwing up everything they touch.


18 posted on 03/25/2024 3:51:24 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: DCBryan1

Shame.


19 posted on 03/25/2024 3:52:49 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: grundle
If he doesn't end up in jail (or worse), he is NOT being held accountable...
20 posted on 03/25/2024 3:55:06 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( hen we so desperately need him)
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