A Brooklyn judge who freed a thug accused of breaking the jaw of a random woman has since retired and is reportedly headed to Florida.
On Wednesday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Sciarrino freed Franz Jeudy, 33, after rejecting a request from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office to hold him on a $50,000 bond.
Jeudy, a black male, is accused of sucker punching a random woman in the face, breaking her jaw and knocking out some of her teeth.
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BREAKING: A female school bus aide was randomly sucker-punched by a man with 7 prior arrests in Brooklyn, NY.
Dulce Pichardo was walking home from work when she was randomly assaulted by 33 year-old Franz Jeudy.
Jeudy was swiftly apprehended following the assault and has… pic.twitter.com/hSrhnqWFKH
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) March 28, 2024
After the incident in March, Jeudy was initially hit with misdemeanor charges and let loose on supervised release.
“This is terrible — I don’t want this to happen to anybody else,” his victim, Dulche Pichardo, 57, told the New York Post at the time. “He’s not supposed to be free. They know that he’s dangerous. You cannot have these people outside that are that dangerous.”
Fast-forward to this past Wednesday, when prosecutors upgraded the charges to a felony and asked Sciarrino to hold him on a $50,000 bond.
“Random attacks against strangers, especially women, are beyond senseless and completely unacceptable,” District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “A grand jury that heard all the evidence returned an indictment for felony assault and we will now seek to hold the defendant accountable, so he will not repeat this outrageous and criminal conduct.”
But Sciarrino refused and Jeudy was released.
#Democrat NY Justice Matthew Sciarrino, a leftist judge with a history of going easy on violent criminals, let Franz Jeudy, a violent thug with 7 prior arrests, go free without bail after he punched a lady, fracturing her facial bones and permanently damaging her lips and teeth. pic.twitter.com/XS6KLtiqy4
— Michael Leary (@bluzrocker) May 2, 2024
And this despite Jeudy’s extensive criminal history that includes two previous arrests for … wait for it … sucker punching random people, including a cop.
“He was arrested for misdemeanor assault after he whacked a Department of Homeless Services officer in the face at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center located on Randall’s Island In July 2018,” the Post notes.
“The officer had just finished his shift and was driving out of the parking lot when Jeudy swung at him through his window. The punch left the officer with bruising, a laceration to his left eye, cuts on his nose and a chipped tooth,” according to the Post.
Months later in January of 2019, he faced assault charges again after he sucker punched a security guard at the NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Medical Center.
In both cases, the charges were eventually released after Jeudy, an alleged schizophrenic, was found unfit to stand trial.
Dovetailing back to the present, two days after Sciarrino released Jeudy this Wednesday, he, the judge, retired from his post and announced his intention to relocate to Florida, according to the Post.
The announcement prompted outrage on social media:
These radical left judges should go to jail for releasing these violent criminals back onto the street.
— Cash Loren (@CashLorenShow) May 5, 2024
Florida should deport the judge back to NYC. Florida doesn’t need Marxist trash like that in their state.
— General™️ (@TheGeneral_0) May 4, 2024
This is totally disgustinğ! The justice system is so brokeñ. Sick and tired of the crìminals walking awáy with out accountability! This juďge should be ashamed of himself!
— Kathleen Winchell ❤️ (@KathleenWinche3) May 4, 2024
Florida folks will feed this dude to the gators or the sharks. One of the two.
Florida justice is swift
— Kubas (@AlienTraining) May 5, 2024
Exactly what you imagine a worthless POS judge to do,
He does one last screw job to NYC citizens and he runs off to a state that is the opposite of the environment he “helped” to create.
— floridanow1 (@floridanow1) May 4, 2024
But interestingly enough, Pichardo’s son, Raul Gomez, was thrilled by Sciarrino’s retirement announcement.
“Good riddance, honestly,” he told the Post. “Hopefully the next judge will be wiser and less ridiculous in his decisions. . . . Hopefully they appoint better judges, although I’m skeptical that will happen.”
“I think [Sciarrino] made a great decision [to retire]. He should be out of law. People like him have no business being in Brooklyn court – it’s absurd he got into such a high position,” he added.
Gomez, 24, also aimed fire at New York’s soft-on-crime laws, adding that his mother is in “shock that Jeudy is free.”
‘”She’s very upset because she thinks that there’s a possibility that he could do it again, especially given that he’s been doing it so many times,” he said.
Speaking with the Post, Sciarrino for his part claimed he released Jeudy because of state law.
“You can’t set bail on someone who is not a flight risk,” he said.
Furthermore, a court spokesperson claimed the judge’s May retirement had been scheduled months in advance.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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