A criminal-coddling Huge Apple choose with simply 13 months on the bench has already sprung at the very least three maniacs — together with the unhinged nutter who allegedly pushed a lady right into a transferring subway this week, The Submit has discovered.
Choose Marva Brown minimize unfastened Markeese Brazelis on a Third-degree sexual abuse cost final week for groping a lady on a C prepare platform at West fiftieth Avenue and Eighth Avenue, regardless of the cost being bail-eligible, in response to court docket data and legislation enforcement sources.
4 days later, Brazelis, 26, allegedly shoved a 23-year-old straphanger into the aspect of a rushing A prepare at a Washington Heights subway station; later, he made a terrifying confession to cops that he was “high” and “mad” throughout the assault, in response to prosecutors.
“This judge needs to wise up,” MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber advised The Submit.
“You don’t have to be a criminal justice expert to know that setting violent recidivist criminals loose on our streets puts New Yorkers in real danger.”
A spokesperson for the Manhattan DA’s Workplace mentioned it didn’t request bail in sexual abuse case because of the restricted felony historical past out there for Brazelis. The mentally sick man additionally had been charged with trespassing final week for getting into a prohibited space of a Bergen Avenue subway station, sources beforehand mentioned.
The jurist’s harmful determination final month isn’t an outlier. Different circumstances the place Brown sprung violent perps with out bail embody:
- In February, Brown, 43, brushed apart prosecutors’ $15,000 money bail request for Amira Hunter, who was caught on digicam bashing a subway cellist within the head with a steel water bottle on the thirty fourth Avenue-Herald Sq. station earlier than fleeing. The Manhattan DA’s Workplace argued the subway psycho, who had at the very least eight prior arrests, had failed to indicate as much as three out of her 5 court docket dates within the yr earlier than the unprovoked assault and needs to be held on bail, however Brown let the unhinged assailant go on supervised launch. Lower than every week later, Hunter, 23, was busted once more for attempting to swipe a $325 Moncler hat from a Midtown Nordstrom, prompting Brown to concern a $500 bail order. Hunter later pled responsible to assaulting the cellist.
- Nunchuck-wielding lunatic Bryant Kenyatta, who allegedly fractured podcaster Stephen Lewis’ arm with the weapon in an unprovoked Midtown assault in April. Kenyatta, 50, had 12 prior arrests. Brown shrugged off prosecutors’ request to carry him on $100,000 money bail on felony assault and felony weapon possession prices, and let him out on supervised launch.
Brown “lets everyone go” as a result of she “doesn’t believe bail is a necessity,” a Manhattan police officer with over two-plus a long time raged.
“It puts all these people back into the streets to hurt other people in the city, and it seems like it doesn’t matter to her,” mentioned the veteran cop.
Brown, elected in November 2023 to serve a 10-year time period in Brooklyn Civil Court docket, ran on the Democratic and far-left Working Households Get together strains. The ex-Authorized Assist lawyer, who beforehand served on the board of the nonprofit Households and Buddies of the Wrongfully Convicted, acquired endorsements from liberal pols’ corresponding to state Assemblyman Brian Cunningham and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.
Following her win, leftist Metropolis Councilmember Chi Osse (D-Brooklyn), whose district overlaps with Group Board 8, the place Brown beforehand was a member, praised her as “amazing” and “an indispensable community member.”
Brown, who additionally goes by Marva Brown-Henry, is at the moment flattening a taxpayer-funded wage of $216,400 as a metropolis Civil Court docket choose. A spokesperson for the Workplace of Court docket Administration mentioned she is at the moment sitting in Manhattan Legal Court docket in a routine task to assist with the court docket’s “operational needs.”
Throughout a previous 2021 run for a Brooklyn Civil Court docket gavel, Brown insisted in a video interview that, as a choose, she can be “fair and impartial” to those that come earlier than her, but additionally would apply her personal discretion.
“I have empathy, I have foresight to say, ‘This person can be better and can do better if given the proper tools and opportunities,’” she mentioned.
New York is the one state the place penal legal guidelines bizarrely bar judges from contemplating a perp’s dangerousness when setting bail.
However in lots of of those circumstances, Brown may have thought-about the prolonged rap sheets of the perps earlier than her as disincentivizing them from returning to court docket as a result of they’d doubtless face a stiffer penalty, in response to Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a former senior trial counsel with the Manhattan DA’s Workplace.
“Obviously when you hear of one judge releasing so many violent recidivists that go on to release, it’s extremely infuriating and disheartening,” mentioned Jennifer Harrison, founding father of the group Victims Rights NY.
“Unfortunately, there are not enough good people to step up to the plate and run against these woke idiots and lunatics that are running the asylum.”
An OCA spokesperson mentioned the workplace doesn’t touch upon bail selections and that judges “have discretion in making bail decisions in accordance with the law and based solely on an individualized assessment of a defendant’s risk of flight.”
Brown didn’t reply to requests for remark.
