Thread by @bmorecourtwatch

Today (Wednesday June 1, 2022), there much confusion even trying to start a bail review. Judge Jackson was a last minute substitution for Judge Hong.

There was no clerk's office present to record the preceding. This a particular thorn in Judge Jackson's side. The docket, which was scheduled to start at 8:30, did not start until 9 am.

In the delay, the Central Booking computer crashed. This is the computer used to allow loved ones in Central Booking to attend their own bail hearings via zoom. It was fixed before the first person from Central Booking needed to appear.

Case 1: A young person who struggles with PTSD after experiencing severe trauma as a child. [Reminder: jails increase trauma and introduce new trauma] He is being caged after a car stop from failure to engage turn signal and items were recovered from a car that is not his.

ASA Thomas metaphorically waves hands and claims "But violence in Baltimore" and recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends home detention
Judge Jackson orders Home detention

Case 2: A father who while checking his phone in a legally parked car, was suddenly surround by people pointing guns at him. Needless to say he left. He did not know that the people pointing guns at him, with no warning, and for no reason, were cops.

ASA Thomas metaphorically waves hands in distress and exclaims, "But he left the scene!" Recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends HWOB
Judge Jackson orders home detention

Case 3: Postponed while the family tries to pull together medical records.

Case 4: A father being caged because his car was parked in parking lot where in incident happened. And cops decided to look in all the cars in the parking lot for funsies.

ASA Thomas repeats the cops' story and recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends HWOB
Judge Jackson orders home detention.

Case 5: A convoluted DV case where the abuser was hiding the closet of the person he had been abusing, and was discovered when the family came looking for the abused. Cops and SAO are lousy at handling DV cases.

For a deeper look at this, here is our previous thread on the matter.

https://twitter.com/bmorecourtwatch/status/1523722926427877376?s=20&t=XboY_eUiQKtcPDmZvB6jZg

ASA Thomas tells story that is supported by the cops or the SOPC. Recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends HWOB
Judge Jackson orders HWOB

Case 6: A high school student who had been scheduled to graduate this month. They have serious mental health issues that are being treated and addressed. But that cannot happen in jail.

ASA Thomas repeats the cops' story and recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends HWOB
Judge Jackson orders home detention

Case 7: A father who was stabbed and then charged with what happened after he was stabbed.
ASA Thomas recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends HWOB
Judge Jackson orders home detention

Case 8: A father being caged despite what judge Jackson said was the shortest SOPC he has ever read. The most serious charges have already been dropped.
ASA Boyle recommends HWOB
Pretrial recommends ROR with supervision
Judge Jackson orders ROR with supervision

Judge Jackson and pretrial take time at the end of the docket to discuss why there was a screw up at the clerk's office this morning.

Pretrial says the schedule was sent to them over 2 months ago and that the docket was sent last last week. Judge Jackson says he is going to get to the bottom of this.

That is the end of the docket. Remember that prosecutors are cops. Despite what you read today, there are no "good" judges".

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