Subject: Re: Avoidable Crime
Then when does this apply if eight felonies is insufficient (the bolded part)?

Maybe if he had ever actually hurt someone.

I was able to find a media description of his rap sheet:

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Terran Green has a criminal history that dates back to June of 2007 when he was arrested and charged for evading arrest with a motor vehicle, twice, and theft.

In December of 2011, Terran Green was charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to sell, twice.

Terran Green was then arrested in Dec. 2017 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

He was out on a $5,000 bond after being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and felon in possession of a firearm in March of 2023.

https://www.click2houston.com/...

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Three things about that list. First, those are all charges of criminal activity that didn't result in anyone being injured (assault is the charge when you scare someone with a weapon but don't hurt them). Second, those are charges, not convictions - the media has reported that he spent time in prison, but we don't know for what. And third, those crimes were committed in three incidents across sixteen years at the time it came to set bond earlier this year.

That's not the rap sheet of a "established criminal predator." You have an 18-year-old who stole something and racked up extra counts when he ran from the cops, got busted for dealing pot, and then had an assault charge about six years after his pot bust (assuming he was convicted of all those charges). Certainly a bad criminal record, but not one that a judge can (or should) look at and say, "unless I jail him prior to trial, there's no way he goes even a few months without hurting someone." With only one violent prior? It's pretty likely that the prosecution didn't even contest bail.