Prosecutors and Judges Need to Be Talked About More In Relation to Rising Crime

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(07-15-2021, 09:56 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Here's yet another example of what I'm taking about...

https://news.yahoo.com/arrest-made-murder-case-michelle-210338691.html

https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/crime/ac-cn-michelle-cumming-homicide-20210714-20210714-mhz6obqttvbvnnp2cgqgplm7jq-story.html

Michelle Cummings was killed by a stray bullet, while sitting on a hotel patio in Annapolis, Maryland.  She was there for her sons induction into the Naval Academy.  

The suspect was charged in Febuary with assault and firearm possession.  

Then again in April he was charged yet again with firearm posession and drug posession.  He clearly didn't learn his lesson from two months earlier.

In this case, the prosectution actually asked he be held without bond.  The court eleceted him to placed on house arrest instead.  Well, guess what happened?  He cut off his ankle monitor in May and apparently wasn't tracked down until this murder (Late June).

Lets take a look at some crimes commited by the suspect prior to 2021.  In 2016 he plead to illegal possession a handgun, which he was prohibited from.  In 2013 he was charged in two seperate cases, possession of a handgun in a vehicle, and conspiracy to commit robbery.

Look at how many felony gun charges we have here.  One after another, after another.  And the courts give him house arrest?  For a guy that gets arrested in Feb and then right then again in April, and with that criminal history?  It makes no sense.

Now we have a mother dead, and a family in mourning, during a time which should have been a celebration.  Imagine going from celebrating the son getting inducted into something as special as the Naval Academy (he also due to join the football team) to having bury your mother or your wife.  And for what?  Because the courts failed this community and specifically this family.

 There's literally no legitimate excuse for that. None...