The New American By Selwyn Duke
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools,” warned 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer. Would he say today, though, that the ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is … the United States’ criminal-justice system? Some may thus wonder upon hearing stories such as the following.
In January 2025, North Carolina Judge Teresa Stokes released into society a deranged 34-year-old man with 14 prior arrests. His rap sheet included violent and unstable behavior; even robbery with a dangerous weapon was on the list. And what was required of him?
Merely a written promise to appear for his next court date (no cash bail or additional conditions). Records and reports indicate that this criminal was known to authorities as a repeat offender, too.
This man, Decarlos Brown Jr., would proceed to murder Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train seven months later.
Then there’s Judge Anna Mikhaleva. In June 2025, she released Tony Harris, a 62-year-old career criminal. The thug had previously been arrested more than two dozen times and had felony and misdemeanor convictions. Nonetheless, Mikhaleva freed him without bail in a felony gun case, though he did have to wear an ankle monitor.
Harris was wearing it, too, when he allegedly shot and killed 56-year-old Emilio Rosas outside a Bronx deli in February.
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