MARCH 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 3

VOTE THEIR ASS OUT
THREE JUDGES who freed accused killers on low bonds AND need to go!
REPRINTED FROM THE
BREAKING BOND SERIES
By Randy Wallace
FOX 26 Houston
In this edition of Breaking
Bond, FOX 26 Reporter Randy
Wallace spoke with several
candidates who are running
against criminal court judges,
who are reducing or setting
bonds for repeat offenders.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - For
more than a year, we’ve repeatedly
asked Judges Hillary Unger,
Greg Glass, and Jason Luong for
interviews for Breaking Bond
reports. All those requests were
ignored.
Three candidates running
against them were more than
happy to talk to us.
Last September, Houston Police
Department Officer Bill Jeffery
was killed in a gun battle with
30-year-old Deon Ledet, a habitual
criminal and wanted fugitive
at the time.
The DA’s office asked 208th
Criminal District Court Judge
Greg Glass to deny Ledet bond.
Instead, Judge Glass lowered
Ledet’s bond to just $20,000.
“This court has had so much
bad publicity with the release
of repeat violent offenders and
I know I can make a change
there,” said prosecutor Beverly
Armstrong, whose running
against Judge Glass.
“I would look at whether this
was your first-time, fifth-time,
tenth-time,” Armstrong said. “I
would look at is there demonstrated
evidence of danger to
society,”
In October 2021, we told you
how 248th Criminal District
Court Judge Hillary Unger set
bond for 40-year-old Andrew
Williams, charged with capital
murder at $150,000.
Williams would later go on
to allegedly run over and kill
71-year-old Martha Medina in a
McDonald’s parking lot.
“Too many people are being
killed on the streets of Harris
County by felons who’ve been
released on multiple felony
bonds. These are violent offenders
who are endangering our
community,” said prosecutor
Linda Mazagatti who hopes to
unseat Judge Hillary Unger in the
primary,
“One bond, I certainly understand
that. A second bond is a
potential, but it has to be justifiable,”
said Mazagatti. “A third
bond is typically unreasonable.”
Back in July 2020, we told you
about 38-year-old Brandon Andres’
lengthy criminal history.
That didn’t stop 185th Criminal
District Court Judge Jason Luong
from granting him three felony
bonds.
On June 14, 2021, police say
Andres and another man murdered
35-year-old Rodrick
Miller.
“The trial docket in that court
is absurd. My opponent has only
been to trial 10 times in three
years while many of our hardworking
democratic judges have
been to trial 30 to 40 times in
that same time period,” said
prosecutor Andrea Beall whose
running against Judge Jason
Luong.
“He hasn’t tried a capital
murder. He hasn’t presided over
a single child abuse case, even
though the legislature requires
judges prioritize those in trial
order,” Beall said.
248TH DISTRICT JUDGE
HILLARY UNGER
208TH DISTRICT JUDGE
GREG GLASS
185TH CRIMINAL DISTRICT JUDGE
JASON LUONG
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