Sunday, March 01, 2026

Justice is so....Confusing

Get a look at this headline from CWB:

  • Red Line robber was wearing an ankle monitor for a Red Line robbery he committed while wearing an ankle monitor

And it wasn't his first time getting caught while wearing an ankle monitor:

  • The February 19 robbery was not Stephens’ first alleged offense while under electronic monitoring nor his first alleged robbery on the Red Line.

    Prosecutors last year charged Stephens with armed robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after he and an accomplice allegedly robbed a 41-year-old man on a southbound Red Line train near 47th Street on September 12.

His accomplice was....also wearing an ankle monitor!

  • Both Stephens and Gray were wearing ankle monitors at the time of that alleged robbery. Judge James Murphy III ordered both men detained on those charges, citing the ankle monitors as a specific point of concern.

Holy Crap! A Cook County judge ordered him held??? Hats off to Judge James Murphy III!

  • Despite his history, Judge Carol Howard decided on November 11 to release Stephens on an ankle monitor again, according to court records.

    The arrangement quickly unraveled. One month later, a court officer notified Howard that Stephens had failed to report to their office weekly as ordered. Howard kept him on the ankle monitor anyway. In January, she modified his electronic monitoring conditions to allow him to be outside his home from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Oh....there they go again - this time Judge Carol Howard. 

We'd say it's amazing, but it isn't - it's expected.

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52 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's only a movie & the charge was around their heads not their ankles but let's try this out. since All the great minds at the CCSO & the Crook Co judiciary couldn't or wouldn't figure out how to work the ankle monitors let's try this. When they leave the assigned area they were told to stay in have a small charge of C4 in the monitor. Not a lot just enough to blow off a foot. They can't complain that if they are shot the charge would go off that's B.S. so for the brainiacs at the courts after they fail twice they can't walk anymore. For those that would argue after both feet are blown away we would have to take care of them.......... Odds are good we already are. That can't flee, after blowing off a foot so while in the hospital hook up the ankle monitor to the other leg!! You can bet they will stay home, in the event they call in to neutralize the charge & a DEI moron disarms the wrong monitor or forgets. 2 birds 1 stone. The DEI idiot gets canned, the bad guy/gal loses a foot. No payout they shouldn't have done the crime right?? Ok maybe a touch overboard but we need to do something there are ZERO CONSEQUENCES for bad behavior. if there were people wouldn't be robbing anything after being caught right? How about the mutt on the Westside a year or two ago who smoked his neighbor for turning him in. The shithead leaves his residence goes down the block & shoots his neighbor & uses the monitor ing device as his alibi? We need a new approach & saying vote out every judge won't work nor does yelling vote Republican. Bad people require bad decisions be made. For all the good people remember us?

3/01/2026 12:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Democrats.
Probably a relative.

Get out of Illinois ASAP upon retiring.

3/01/2026 01:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow doesn't judge Murphy usually cut them loose? Color me surprised.

Am getting judge Howard is dei and if this feral had blue eyes, judge Howard would have held the blue eyed feral.

When will the judges actually obey the law?

3/01/2026 02:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was searching for something on judge coward, er Howard and found this little liberal rag's gem regarding toe nail's selection process: https://chicagoreader.com/news/cook-county-judicial-primary-elections-dwindling-field-candidates/

Toe nail openly admits to restricting the candidates.

3/01/2026 02:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Double-secret ankle monitor probation? Or quad-secret? This is sooooo hard to keep up with.

Until these things start removing the ankles upon violation, they're akin to the Emperor's New Ankle Bracelets and just as useless.

3/01/2026 02:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

CTA is equivalent to fight club. The first rule is there are no rules. Taking CTA is travel at your own risk.

3/01/2026 03:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmmmm
I need to file this with the ...15 days to stop the spread....

3/01/2026 03:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Set 'em free in 203!!

3/01/2026 04:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have to place blame on Tim evans leadership as chief DEI judge in charge for his long stupid tenure.
You just can’t fix stupid 🤬

3/01/2026 05:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jim Murphy was a good ASA, also a good Judge. We need more like him.

3/01/2026 06:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Carol Howard, the only Judge on the planet who could make William Hooks seem independent. The Judges in Illinois, especially Cook County make your head spin like a top twenty times over. They are the most useless, incompetent, moronic, idiotic, and corrupt semi humans breathing right now.

3/01/2026 06:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IT is an absolute embarrassment to the bench. Howard barely speaks English and applies her ghetto mentality to every decision on the bench.

3/01/2026 06:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just another isolated incident. This Carol Howard must have a lot of jailbirds in her family tree.

3/01/2026 07:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think your making this all up, the local media mentioned nothing of this.

3/01/2026 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A Judge who if she were working as a lawyer in the private sector you wouldn't let her do a house closing for you.

3/01/2026 08:18:00 AM  
Blogger I Voted For Kamala said...

As epected.......

3/01/2026 08:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The cook county court system is the greatest threat to Chicago citizens. Kim Foxx may be gone and Burke is definitely a little better but she’s still a democrat. Regardless, the real problem is the judges that should never be allowed to be judges. They probably shouldn’t even be in the legal business at all. Chicago’s crime problem is democrat caused

3/01/2026 08:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I did 10 years ago

3/01/2026 08:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

LOL. Carol Howard is known to be a joke. WE JUST PUT UP WITH HER!!!

3/01/2026 09:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Will they include this in their tourism commercials? Free robberies with every CTA ride, bonus points for getting robbed by a banded one...

3/01/2026 09:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amen. Our own politicians are our own worst enemies.

3/01/2026 09:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Retirees, help fellow First Responder Retirees to flee this hellacious State, any way you can….

3/01/2026 09:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Howard released our murder offender at the end of a bench trial before closing arguments were even heard. My understanding is that now the SAO will seek a different judge immediately for murders that get assigned to her.

3/01/2026 09:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I understand the article saying Judge Howard made a ruling to cover the criminal offense committed by Stephen. Howard changed requirements for electronic monitoring to made it look like Stephen is in compliance. Is Burke paying attention?

3/01/2026 10:22:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

any bets that if I as a white man go on the cta a hit a non-white, gay, transexual, non-binary or transgender person I will be held in jail on no bond until trial

3/01/2026 10:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can be out of the house from 8am to 8pm why to go to work ? Fuckin joke why even bother

3/01/2026 11:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s election year the democrats and judges give two 💩 about victims. Poor woman almost burnt to death by a repeat violent offender . Keep electing democrats, your daughter, wife,mother or loved one might be the next victim

3/01/2026 11:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

3 Alabama women indicted for filling out multiple absentee ballots, false applications…https://x.com/endwokeness/status/2027420602005368856

3/01/2026 11:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

O/T: Can we get the full back story to why the officer was stripped during his deposition by a BIA Sergeant:

-What does this say about the officers’s credibility? Is the BIA blaming the officer for what went wrong to save the big fish (Hein)?
-Can the officer still be used as a witness for the city, not that he’s been stripped?
-Does the officer have a proven claim of open retaliation? On the record now?
-Why was the stripping so important that it couldn’t wait?
-Who was the BIA Sergeant, so that we can stay clear of him or her?

3/01/2026 11:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please put a list together of all these judges when the general election comes so we can vote them out. The FOP should be doing a campaign against them.

3/01/2026 11:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can you get the entire Bio of these judges, grades in college, grades in law school, bar exam scores as well as ACT AND SAT. Then what they did after they became lawyers. Then when they became judges, how race affects their decisions. I don't believe any of it would be surprising, but I'd still like to see it.

3/01/2026 11:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Judge Murphy was a very good ASA. Looks like he is still working for the people.

3/01/2026 11:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rhambo regularly rode the L trains with a couple of officers on his detail. Brandon is protected by a security detail, equivalent in number, to one and a half companies of infantry. He does not ride the CTA. He is AFRAID to do so.

3/01/2026 11:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's like the nuns used to tell us years ago in grade school. If at first you don't succeed, try try again.

3/01/2026 11:58:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

first rule of fight club was you don't talk about fight club...

first rule of cta club? Arm thee self.

3/01/2026 12:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Judges should wear ankle monitors. Crook County Judges are the best the money can buy. Vote not to retain any of them.

3/01/2026 12:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tim Evans is mediocrity and best.

3/01/2026 12:37:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Probation is for the innocent

3/01/2026 01:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No amount of advertising by the Tourism Board will overcome this reality. I ain't coming.

3/01/2026 02:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Amidst the blossoming of my busy seasons, I savor the return of sincere sarcasmic silliness.



Chalkie

3/01/2026 02:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

by by boo hoo.

3/01/2026 03:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Evans is just PART of the problem.
Prickwinkle, foxxxx, lightfoot, and the rest of the black caucus.
“Too many black and brown in prison”

Then there’s the people that voted for this shit.

3/01/2026 03:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sgt has nothing to do with that. Comes from the chief or the department advocate.

3/01/2026 04:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And it wasn't his first time getting caught while wearing an ankle monitor:

It's fashionable in the ghetto to show your street cred besides they are on sale on ebay in an array of colors.

3/01/2026 05:21:00 PM  
Blogger unknown said...

visit chicago at your own risk teeeeee heeeeee

3/01/2026 06:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I always knew Jim Murphy was great in 7th floor I knew that 7th floor was going to weaponzied when he left I decided to definitely get out of line of fire of being a proactive cop . I am a reactive cop til I retire signed a Republican west sider cop on midnights

3/01/2026 07:14:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There was an Arnold Schwartzenhaggen movie where a neck exploder went off if you crossed the electronic perimeter...

3/01/2026 07:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Simple, vote NO for all. There are 1 or 2 exceptions, edit as you wish.

3/01/2026 08:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You want to see something funny? Head over to br 35 and listen to that clown in a rob tell these criminals how failing to report under the mandatory reporting pretrial guidelines could "potentially" result in additional charges..... This is after they've already failed to report !! Then he asks if theres a reason they haven't reported, were they aware... answer: yes I was but I didn't know I had to." What?! Judge replies ok, well make sure you report next time. What a joke!

3/01/2026 10:53:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

With you 100% on that, Chalkie

3/01/2026 10:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Scum times front page headline .. In 2025, violent attacks/crimes on CTA highest in 25 years ..CTA facing loss of $50 millions Federal funding. Where is lame duck mayor brando?

3/02/2026 09:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's not true. I can ride the CTA anytime, after I take all my pills, and I stop hearing the voices in my head.

3/03/2026 09:05:00 PM  

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