Shaquan Seth, arrested nearly 150 times, walked free without bail twice in ten weeks before a Queens judge finally set bail after his third arrest.
Nayshawn Wilkinson, 19, was released on $5,000 bail by Brooklyn Judge Janice Robinson despite an attempted murder charge, then shot another man at the West Indian Day Parade five weeks later. He is one of thirteen recent defendants the judge has released on no bail or reduced bail.
A man with a stabbing conviction and six parole violations was on probation, not in prison, when he allegedly moved through Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood for half an hour, killing one man and stabbing four others.
Calese Crowder, the repeat offender dubbed the “Butt Sniffer,” has been accused of the same act at five different Southern California stores in five years; the state's cumulative answer has been 264 days in county jail.
Repeat offender Fale Pea, freed by a lenient 2012 sentence and a 2025 wave of dismissed charges, randomly blinded 75-year-old Jeanette Marken in Seattle.
A California parole board overruled prosecutors' objections and freed Darryl Collins, a two-time murderer, in 2020. Fatima Johnson paid for that decision with her life 364 days later.
A federal magistrate released Ashlie Jeremie on unsecured $2,500 bond over prosecutors' objection, and sixteen days later he was charged with beating Jonathan Sanon to death near Boston Common and attacking a college student blocks away.
A Contra Costa County judge released Marcos Iriarte-Valdez on his own recognizance one day before he allegedly stabbed 68-year-old Todd Stewart to death outside his Martinez home.
Tyler Brown, a career criminal with a three-decade violent record, should never have been free to walk Memorial Drive that afternoon. He got a fraction of the prison sentence prosecutors requested in 2021, then used his freedom five years later to open fire on a crowded Cambridge street, shooting Casimir Bangoura and another driver a block from Harvard's campus.
