The Average Voter Doesn't Want
Criminal Justice Reform.
Justice Done for the Victims.
And another of the mass release criminals turned loose by Stitt is back in the hoosegow. Releasing criminals is nothing more than a tax upon the middle aged and elderly as you can see in the graph above. State government gets to redistribute the incarceration and prosecution money to buy more votes while the middle age parents and the elderly pay the cost of increased crime. Then when crime becomes unbearable, these same politicians can ask for a new tax to "protect the public".
Releasing career criminals before they age out of most of their criminal behaviour is insane. But lets focus on our latest representative of the hundreds of released criminals in the November mass release.
Meet Marquez Lewis Stewart. His first prosecution was for CM-2011-4143, possession of drugs in December of 2011. He pleads guilty in record time, being sentenced to one year suspended, some community service, and the usual several hundred in court fees and fines. About a year and a half later Stewart hasn't paid a dime and agrees to a payment plan. Nope, that didn't work. On December 5th of 2019 Stewart once again agrees to pay monthly.
Then in early January of 2012 right after being released on that suspended sentence Stewart is arrested again for being in possession of a gun while inebriated and committing the crime of shoplifting .CM-2012-139 was filed on the 18th of January and the crimes were committed on the 10th. Stewart posts $4000 bond, the case is eventually dismissed usually because restitution is made but the court costs are not dismissed, an indication that it was a plea deal, pay the court fees and restitution and we will give you a second chance kind of deal. But of course, Stewart didn't pay a dime according to the online court records.
But that previous arrest wasn't quite wrapped up, the prosecutor filed the charges again less than 30 days later, CF-2012-786 which Stewart also pleads guilty to and receives 7 years in DOC, suspended except for the first two years and 30 days in jail on the shoplifting charge. I would say Stewart didn't pay his restitution. By the 4th of February the DOC has Stewart, four months later Stewart is out, serving four months of the two year prison sentence, signs a payment agreement, then is promptly re arrested about five weeks later to revoke his suspended sentence. We learn a bit more about Stewart, he was a juvenile criminal with a felony on his record which was why his January 10th crime was for possession of a gun after a felony conviction. The rest of the charges, drug possession with intent to distribute, same thing in the presence of a minor under 12, drug paraphernalia, and possession of drug proceeds. His suspended sentences are revoked and he is to serve five years on each of two counts, served concurrently. By September Stewart is back in DOC custody. By December 5th 2019 Stewart has been released as part of the thousands turned loose by Stitt and has made a payment plan.
And what happened to Stewart to cause his suspended sentence to be revoked on the January charges? Stewart stole a car it seems on the 30th of January in 2012, CF-2012-813 , Stewart pleads guilty quickly and is in DOC custody by the 28th of March. He gets five years in prison, all but the first two suspended, which he serves concurrently with the revoked suspended sentence for his January crimes. By June of 2013 he is back out after the two year stint that was served in a few months and promptly revoked again and he is sentenced to three years in prison. Once again by the 5th of December 2019 he was out in the mass release of inmates and agreeing to pay each month toward his fees and fines.
But right after getting out in June of 2013 Stewart is arrested with four counts for selling weed, possession paraphernalia and proceeds of drug sales, in the presence of a minor, along with three other associates. This time his bond is $25,000 but by August of that year the bonding company sent him back to jail for breaking the conditions of bail, usually another crime arrest. This time he gets twenty two years in state prison, all but the last ten years suspended, another 12 years on another of the crimes, and another 16 years on a third count, and one year on the fourth account. It was from this sentence that Stewart was released with the hundreds of other criminals in November and by December 5th 2019 Stewart was out and agreeing to pay monthly on his costs from nearly a decade ago.
Finally we came to exactly why Steward had his suspended sentences revoked, on July 9th 2013 Stewart was caught again with a gun after his previous felony convictions. By February of 2014 Stewart has gotten another 22 year sentence with 12 years suspended running concurrently with his other felony convictions.
Then once again on the 2nd of January 2020 Stewart is arrested for another charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm. His third time on this same charge.
Stewart is a career criminal with an unknown felony juvenile record. He is going to carry a gun, the state of Oklahoma isn't going to stop that no matter how many second and third chances he is given. No doubt he “needs” the protection while selling drugs and yes, many of his convictions were drug convictions other than the stolen car and weapon charges. Is he non violent? I would say not, yet he was turned loose with hundreds of others in a mass release and we were told he was in jail for a weed conviction......
Stewart had over 100 years of convictions if you added all of them up, he sat in prison for about 5 years before the do gooders helped turn him and many others loose on society.
Contact your elected officials and tell them to put the brakes on this soft on crime criminal justice "reform".
