The career criminal, Deon Ledet, who murdered HPD Officer Bill Jeffrey and wounded officer was free on multiple bond thanks to Harris County 208th District Court Judge Greg Glass.
The Houston Police Officers Union has demanded that Glass resign.
Instead Glass is running for reelection.
He has raised nearly $7,000 through his online reelection fundraiser through 11 donors and every single of one of them giving to him is a criminal defense attorney.
Wonder why they want him reelected.
The case of Judge Glass freeing Ledet despite his lengthy criminal record wasn’t aberration, as KHOU’s Jeremy Rogalski, Judge Glass routinely rules against DA motions to keep violent criminals in jail.
"Since taking the bench in January 2019, court records reveal Glass has routinely ignored prosecutors’ attempts to keep habitual and other violent criminals off the streets until their day in court.
“You keep letting them out, you keep spitting them out to re-offend,” said Andy Kahan, Crime Stoppers of Houston director of victim services and advocacy program. “I call it the 'Harris County bond pandemic,' and people have paid the price.”
The former girlfriend of Jorge Garivaldi paid the price three separate times after Glass freed the repeat offender on bond. In one case from June 2020, Garivaldi allegedly kicked her in the head and face. In another, he was charged with stabbing the woman with a screwdriver. Prosecutors had filed motions to deny bail both times, with no success.
Eight months later, Garivaldi picked up another assault charge for beating up the same woman. In that case, Glass again ruled against the state’s motion to deny bail and allowed a $50,000 bond...
Damarion Gully, was granted bond three times after separate charges for aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and murder.
Another defendant, Jarvis Williams, faced four separate charges: aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault, felon possession of a firearm, and drug possession with intent to deliver. In each case, prosecutors tried to keep him off the streets, yet Glass granted bond.
Court records also reveal a five-time bond recipient in Glass’s court. James Carroll picked up five separate felony charges from March 2020 to August 2021 and was released on bond, despite attempts from the Harris County District Attorney’s office to keep him in custody."
KHOU Legal Analyst Carmen Roe points out with this Harris County Bond Pandemic, “this is something we've never seen in Harris County before. So it's never been this way, and it's never been this bad.”