A Texas judge ousted in Tuesday's midterm elections spent Wednesday morning releasing nearly all of the juvenile defendants who came before him — and didn't show up to court Thursday.
Harris County Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin lost his re-election bid to Natalia Oakes as Democrats swept the county's juvenile judicial offices.
"He was releasing everybody," public defender Steven Halpert told the Houston Chronicle. "Apparently he was saying that's what the voters wanted."
Devlin asked each of the defendants he saw whether they planned to kill anyone upon their release, the Chronicle reported, then released them until a rescheduled Jan. 4 court date — the day Oakes takes over the 313th District Court.
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