Blame the Judge?

Judge Nowinski is racking up the body count:

• The man police believe is responsible for fatally stabbing his wife in Portage Park on Tuesday afternoon was later found dead inside a parked car near the attack site. Court records show prosecutors asked a judge to keep the 57-year-old in custody last month after they charged him with kidnapping and aggravated domestic battery by strangulation, but the judge, Thomas Nowinski, rejected their request.

  The man, who has not been publicly identified by officials, was arraigned on a five-count true bill related to the October allegations on Monday morning, court records show.

  At about 2:23 p.m. yesterday, an off-duty Chicago police detective intervened upon seeing a man stabbing a woman in the 5600 block of West Leland, according to CPD. The officer fired shots toward the attacker, who fled the scene. Police said the officer also suffered a graze wound to his leg during the incident.

No mention of the murderer having a gun or shooting at anyone - so we assume the leg wound was a ricochet or a negligent discharge of some sort. Things happen in the heat of battle, even to war-tested veterans. 

But the judge is following Fata$$'s SAFE-T Act and no-bail directives to the letter. It doesn't matter that this guy had a previous domestic battery case and possibly a third one in Michigan from a little while back....what's three separate domestic battery cases among friends? 

But he also released the jagoff who went to his ex-girlfriends house in Edgewater, chased her around with a knife and stabbed her 11-year-old son to death. 

Now the lefties are angry:

• A day after a man allegedly killed his estranged wife and was found dead blocks away in Portage Park, a Cook County judge faced heavy criticism for refusing to hold the suspect in custody as he faced charges in an earlier attack on the same woman.

  In a harshly written letter, advocates for domestic violence survivors urged Chief Judge Timothy Evans to reassign Judge Thomas E. Nowinski to prevent him from hearing similar domestic cases. Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, meanwhile, pushed Nowinski to resign, noting that she wouldn’t “trust him with a traffic ticket at this point.”

Again, he's ruling in accordance with the dictates of the governor, the Cook County Board president, the state legislature, the media, and left-wingnuts in general.

What's a politically beholden judge supposed to do?