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Texas teenager Accused of murder He was released from police detention after his bond was drastically reduced from $ 800,000 to $ 100 per charge.
Stephon Martin Morson, 19, was released from Prison of Travis County in Austin in Texas, Saturday after announced the bail.
Morson was charged with the shooting of 20-year-old Keshawn Cage, who was found by police with a firearm wound to the head in October.
Prison for Travis County told Fox News Digital that Morson was reserved on November 6, 2024, and accused of murder and physical evidence stun/inventing.
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Stephon Martin Morson, 19, from Austin in Texas, was charged with murder, but from prison after his bond was reduced from 800,000 to $ 100 on charges. (Prison of Travis County)
His bond is originally set up to $ 800,000, but recently fell to $ 100 for each fee, for a total of $ 200, with the conditions that Morson carries a GPS monitor, staying under house detention and do not contact the victim’s family or potential witnesses ,, CBS Austin first reported.
Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock told Fox News Digital that Morson’s punishment is “not enough”.
“In order for a man accused of murder, it has been reduced so low that he could walk freely, Samar is in the face of Austinity that could potentially become the next victim. The authority of violent criminals are constantly released to Austin Streets exactly as the violent crime is increasing.” , Bullock said.
He added: “The District Attorney, the County Lawyer and the judges have made it clear that they are not interested in caring for Austinite safety or working with the implementation of the law. All they are interested in is their own political plan. We have seen criminals published on Bond Free, kill someone.
Bullock said this was not the first time that the referees and judges of the Travis County District have drastically reduced the relationship for a person accused of murder or sexual abuse.
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Texas Government Greg Abbott described a reduction in Morson’s relationship and his subsequent release as “amazing.” (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
“This is not exclusive only for one judge. It happened to a number of different courts,” Bullock said. “We had some where they might not happen again, but then we had others who behave again. People who go out for a relationship and kill someone else when they were already charged with a violent crime.”
The Government of Texas Greg Abbott He also commented on Morson’s edition and called the move “amazing.”
“This is amazing. This is why I made the reference of the causporant an emergency,” Abbott wrote in a post on X.
Government Texas Lieutenantman Dan Patrick also supported Abbotta and said he was ready to play “hardball” so that the violent offenders would be released with bail during a special session last week to pass the bail reform package.
The TEBSA Government Dan Patrick advocated for a bail reform package currently in the state legislative body and said that violent offenders could not be released from prison to the bond. (Reuters/David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
On Wednesday, laws cleared the first of many obstacles to become law. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee adopted the Bail Reform Package by voting 6-0.
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“I am grateful that Government Abbott has declared the reform of an emergency guarantee for the current legislative session. Too many innocent people, and citizens and lawmakers for law enforcement, have become the goals of criminals for the irresponsible amount of bail that allow free criminals to leave,” Bullock said. “We are a nation of law and order, but activist judges and prosecutors who are interested in their own plan rather than the law destroy that principle.”
Texas ‘victims’ proponents have been trying to obtain more severe guarantee legislation for years, especially in certain cases involving terrible crimes. In the past years, many criminal offenders in Harris district were released to a low bond or nothing, and some repeated, sometimes violently, according to Rania Mankarius, Crime Stoppers Executive Director of Houston.
Fox News Digital addressed the Travis district lawyer, but did not immediately receive an answer.
Louis Casiano Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Tips and ideas of the story can be sent to Stepheny.price@fox.com
