Thanks to Soros Funded DA, Murder Suspect Released on $200 Bail

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An Austin, Texas man charged with the October 2024 murder of a 20-year-old with a gunshot to the back of the head, was released on $200 bail last Saturday. Brian Slupski of the Lawyer Herald reports that a judge reduced Stephon Martin Morson’s bail from $800,000 to $200 based on a Texas law that allows reduced bail if the District Attorney fails to bring an indictment against a violent offender withing 90 days of arrest.  Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza has not yet indicted Morson, who was arrested for the murder on November 6, 2024.  Garza is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America whose campaign was largely financed by socialist/progressive billionaire George Soros.  Failing to indict an accused murderer and thereby allowing his release is a profound dereliction of a district attorney’s obligation to enforce the law.  Stepheny Price of Fox News reports, elected leaders outside of Austin are outraged.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott commented on Morson’s release, “This is outrageous. It’s why I made bail reform an Emergency Item,” Abbott wrote in a post on X.  Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also backed Abbott and said he is ready to play “hardball” to keep violent offenders from being released on bail during a special session last week to pass a bail reform package.

Austin Police Association President Michael Bullock told reporters, “This is not exclusive to just one judge. This has happened across multiple different courts. People that get out on bond and they murder someone else when they’re already accused of a violent crime. . . . For a man accused of murder to have his bond reduced so low that he’s able to walk free is a slap in the face to Austinites who could potentially become the next victim. The revolving door of violent criminals constantly released back onto the streets of Austin is exactly why we have seen violent crime increase,” Bullock said.

While people, living in places that include Los Angeles, Portland, St Louis and San Francisco, have voted their soft-on-crime progressive district attorneys out of office and placed real prosecutors in those positions, voters in Austin, New York and Philadelphia have kept their Soros-bankrolled DAs in office. How much unnecessary crime and violence will these cities have to suffer before their citizens wise up?