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Posted on 03/16/2026 9:07:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill's decision has sparked a national debate about public safety and the limits of judicial authority. McMahill refused to release Joshua Sanchez-Lopez from jail despite an order from Justice Court Judge Eric Goodman.
Sanchez-Lopez faces charges for battery causing substantial bodily harm, another entry in a long criminal record of 35 prior arrests, including violent offenses.
Judge Goodman authorized release with electric monitoring and a $5,000 bail, an order rejected by McMahill to keep Sanchez-Lopez in custody, arguing that the risk to the community outweighed the court's directive.
Sanchez-Lopez's record stretches across years of encounters with law enforcement. Charges have included robbery, assault, theft, and drug crimes. Police reports tied the most recent arrest to a violent attack that left a victim with serious injuries requiring hospital treatment and charges for battery with substantial bodily harm. Despite his history and the latest charges, Judge Goodman still permitted release under electronic monitoring conditions.
Justice Eric Goodman set Sanchez-Lopez’s bail at $25,000 and ordered his release with an ankle monitor once he posted bond.The program allows defendants to leave jail and wear an ankle bracelet. Various levels of the program require different levels of confinement. Goodman ordered Sanchez-Lopez to high-level electronic monitoring, which Dickerson described as house arrest. About 450 defendants are in the program at a time.
Sheriff McMahill stated that placing an ankle monitor on an offender with such a history doesn't remove the threat posed to the public.
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Sanchez-Lopez reportedly posted bail on January 24, but the Las Vegas police refused to place him in the program, given his history of failing to comply with the rules. Attorneys for Metro filed a petition last week challenging the judge’s authority to release him, arguing that the Department has the authority to declare a defendant too dangerous to release.
In a letter to the court, the department gave three reasons for refusing the judge’s order.
– Sanchez-Lopez’s history of failing to appear in court
– His previous bench warrants
– His past violations of electronic monitoring rulesPolice cited a case in 2020, where Sanchez-Lopez, armed with a gun, ran from the cops and later joked about his ankle monitor on Snapchat and gloated about being “chased again.”
“We have to take a look at that and say, ‘Is this somebody who our electronic supervision program can monitor safely in the community?” Mike Dickerson, assistant general counsel for Metro police, told KLAS. “This is an issue of public safety.”
Too bad we can’t toss that judge and that scumbag Into the same jail cell together.
THIS is what Sanchez-Lopez needs to hear:
“Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flee away, the ice will vanish, and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, the annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass — but you won’t be there.
“The rivulet will run its soaring course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the rose. Still, you won’t be here to see it.
“From every treetop some wild woods songster will carol his mating song; butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happy as it pursues its accustomed vacation; the gentle breeze will tease the tassels of the wild grasses, and all nature will be glad — but you.
“You won’t be here to enjoy it because I command the sheriff to lead you out to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a knotting bough of some sturdy oak, and let you hang until you are dead.
“And then, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officers retire quickly from your dangling corpse, so that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing shall remain but bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, bloodthirsty, throat-cutting, murdering son of a bitch.”
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About time someone stood up to these black-robed thugs, although this probably won’t end well for the sheriff.
We need more sheriffs like him.
Glad some sheriffs (and a few others in authority positions) take their job responsibilities seriously and act accordingly to their authority.
He’s 100% right. That judge is treating him like a non violent offender. WTF
If the sheriff persists in his refusal, he should offer to let the judge go to the jail and release the criminal himself, with the news media present. “Judge, with all respect, you should do your dirty deeds yourself instead of commanding others to do them for you.”
A good way to get his name out there should he run for office with this 80-20 issue. Is it in the cards.
That’s a question. He’s already won an election so perhaps Gov. but Lombardo is in office.
Good, I’ll tell the judge to go F*** himself.
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Does judge Goodman have a spare bedroom in his mansion to properly supervise Señor Sanchez-Lopez?
Who can the judge send to enforce his order, the sheriff’s office?
EC
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