A Las Vegas judge is threatening to hold cops in contempt for refusing to release a violent career criminal with 35 busts on his rap sheet — a legal scrap testing the power of the bench over the badge.
Las Vega Metro police are challenging the authority of Justice Eric Goodman over the fate of Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, a 36-year-old repeat felon whose priors include involuntary manslaughter, drugs and car theft, according to a report by KLAS-TV News.
Goodman wants the goon released with an ankle monitor — but cops said he’s too dangerous to cut loose. “We have to take a look at that and say, ‘Is this somebody who our electronic supervision program can monitor safely in the community?” Mike Dickerson, assistant general counsel for Metro police, told the outlet. “This is an issue of public safety.”
Be really interesting to see how this plays out: an elected judge versus an elected executive officer. That said, seems like the sheriff is doing his duty in attempting to protect citizens under his jurisdiction from a repeated felon who also has a history of blowing off court appearances and skipping court-ordered rehabilitation programs. But these left-wing, soft-on-crime don't care about that, becasue they've been brainwashed to think that locking up criminals somehow doesn't serve as a deterrent to crime--even when the evidence speaks otherwise.
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