Today's Terrible Judge: Josh Hill

Per the #HarrisCounty Domestic Violence Coordinating Council: “The blatant disregard for the safety of the victim in the #AubreyTaylor case is just another concern in the long line of issues relating to how Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is addressed in Harris County. Harris County consistently leads our State in IPV homicides. The Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and our Community Partners have numerous programs in place to assist victims of IPV but without the support of the entire Community and especially all involved within the Criminal Justice System, we will keep leading the State in IPV homicides.

There are many barriers to leaving an abusive situation, one including increased violence and risk for homicide when making the decision to leave. How will the victim be safe from their abuser? For a victim, knowing her offender is in custody gives her the ability to develop and employ a safety plan for when and if the perpetrator is released. This respite has increasingly become even shorter with the bond conditions that are being assigned case after case.

One can only imagine the depth of terror felt by the victim while being held by the offender over several days. The abuse the victim suffered at his hands is unfathomable. While we know an offender is innocent until proven guilty, his previous convictions lead us to believe that he perhaps is not going to follow the law, that committing further violence in the future is more than possible, and our system will not hold him accountable. The intimate partner violence field has tools and knowledge that can be used by criminal justice systems to assess for risk for intimate partner violence and the likelihood of homicide to occur. These tools can be used by law enforcement as well as the judicial response to assist in decision.” Judge #JoshHill of #Houston released Taylor on $2 bond back in 2023.

Sources:

Bill Barajas, "Repeat Offender who posted", Click2Houston , https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/01/19/repeat-offender-who-posted-1-bail-following-aggravated-kidnapping-case-is-back-behind-bars-after-violating-bond-conditions/

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