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>> This is KPRC 2 news at
00:00PM tonight on KPRC 2 a team investigation we’re
team investigation we’re
talking about criminal suspects
with violent histories released
back onto the streets only to
end up accused of committing
even more crime slow bonds or
personal bonds given to repeat
offenders and in many cases
what happens when they get out
is changing families forever.
Our KPRC 2 investigates team is
going in depth with reports here at 6 o’clock and also
here at 6 o’clock and also
tonight at 10 investigator
Robert Arnold leads off our
special coverage tonight.
>> Building in figure wonders
what you’ll say to her 2
year-old granddaughter Alexis
that isn’t something I replayed
over my head all the time how
do you tell a child her mother
was murdered in the person
accused of the crime. Her
father I worry about when to
start school. I worry about you
know what she and her friends
are going to say or what you
know about her mom or dad in 20
years old Caitlin rose was a
burgeoning artist and a doting
mother who’s pregnant with a
second child Caitlin was buried
at Alex Hardy.
>> And like most women in
domestic abuse really believed
he was going to change when she
wound up in the emergency room. Finally press charges
Finally press charges
ultimately cost her life
because they want him out.
>> When Hart was charged with
attacking Caitlin he was
already out of jail on a pair
neither required him to put up
money before his release he was
facing charges of a second DWI
in running from accident and
she will you get out or does
she believe with state and how
we absolutely talking to saying
and even though he was already
out on to bonds are now charged
with assaulting Caitlin harteau
was released again on a
personal bond. 48 hours later
Taylor and her unborn child are
dead. How orders are going to
have to take place before we
wake up and realize this is not
the right path.
>> After reviewing murder cases
filed during the last 2 years
KPRC 2 investigates found 27
cases where a defendant was out
on 2 or more bonds at the time
they were accused of killing
someone law enforcement and
victims rights advocates are
demanding change they’re pretty
much bare bones, I’m not going to be a law abiding citizen
to be a law abiding citizen
I’ve repeated least told you
that because I keep getting
charged with crimes now the
governor and state senators on
both sides of the aisle want to
change the law we really need
to be able to deny.
>> On turned violent offenders.
This is terrible public policy.
It shouldn’t happen and these
judges have got to stop what
they’re doing.
>> Another concern is the
increasing use of unsecured or
personal bonds in felony cases
these bonds to require
defendants to put up money for
their release in 2015 out of
all the felony bonds issued
just over 3% were and secure by
2020 that number grew to nearly
30%. I think that there’s a new
philosophy that people cannot
afford bond or entitled
personal recognizance bond
Chris Morton is judge of the
200 30th District Court he is
the old felony court agreed to
speak with us on camera.
You issued the most personal
WHENEVER ONE HAS IS AND CANNOT AFFORD BOND I MUST GIVE THEM A
AFFORD BOND I MUST GIVE THEM A
BOND THEY CAN MAKE.
THREE RIGHT TO BOND AND BOND
CAN’T BE A FORM OF PUNISHMENT
EVEN WHEN SOMEONE IS REPEATEDLY
CHARGED.
WHAT POINT DOES A JUDGE SAY
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?
IF A PERCENT US CASE IS OF A
CRIME AND ACCUSE OF ANOTHER
CRIPPLE AND ACCUSED AND UNTIL
THEY ARE CONVICT THEY STILL MUST
BE TREATED
U NOW JEFF MORTON DOES SA I IT
IS IN WERE TEP TATION OF THE LAW
AND COLLEAGUES MAY SEE IT
DIFFERENTLY.
THE JUDGE SAYS HE HAS AND WILL
REVOKE SOMEONE’S BND AND IF THEY
HAD VIOLATION BUT HE SAYS
PROSECUTORS MUST FIRST CALL FOR