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Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes freed DeCarlos Brown Jr., a 14-time criminal who went on to butcher Iryna Zarutska. Stokes is also listed as the Director of Operations at Second Chance Services, a Charlotte clinic for mental health and addiction.
Ian Miles Cheong:
That is not just a side job. It is a built-in conflict of interest. The courts feed violent offenders into programs that people like Stokes help run.
The softer the judge, the fuller the clinic. It creates an incentive to release dangerous criminals back into the public because their failures become business. When the same judge who decides whether a career criminal stays in prison also profits from the industry of “rehabilitation,” justice no longer exists. It becomes a racket.
Decarlos Brown Jr., 34 has been arrested at least 14 times, on account of felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, assault, shoplifting and making threats, according to documents reviewed by the New York Post.
Brown's mother got an involuntary commitment order from the courts, and Brown was later diagnosed with schizophrenia after being placed under psychiatric monitoring. She said that he became homeless after she kicked him out of her home for becoming too aggressive.Brown's mom says the court should have never let her son be out in the community knowing he had mental health issues and previous arrests.
Despite his long criminal history, Brown was not serving any sentences at the time of the deadly lightrail attack.
Investigators are still looking into the motive behind the stabbing.
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes freed DeCarlos Brown Jr., a 14-time criminal who went on to butcher Iryna Zarutska. Stokes is also listed as the Director of Operations at Second Chance Services, a Charlotte clinic for mental health and addiction.
Ian Miles Cheong:
That is not just a side job. It is a built-in conflict of interest. The courts feed violent offenders into programs that people like Stokes help run.
The softer the judge, the fuller the clinic. It creates an incentive to release dangerous criminals back into the public because their failures become business. When the same judge who decides whether a career criminal stays in prison also profits from the industry of “rehabilitation,” justice no longer exists. It becomes a racket.