April Aguirre - Crime Victims Advocate Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I fought the law, and they let me out of jail.
Repeatedly let me out of jail. The judge let me
out of jail. Six twenty three is our time here
in Houston's Morning News. Victims Crime Victim's advocate April Lagarry
joins us another case, April, where we've got a in
this case, a woman free on nine felony bonds between
Brazoria and Harris County. She's she's done all kinds of

(00:24):
wonderful things, including pretending that she was a dentist and
injuring a person by pretending she was a dentist, injuring
them with you know, with tools and chemicals and such.
And she's been to prison.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It seems that when she's in prison, you know, she's
actually behaving.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, that's that should tell us that maybe she wants
to be in prison, because she's acting so nice there
and they're feeding her and she's she's getting a good night's.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Sleep, absolutely, and you know she's one of the charges
that she's facing now is aggravated assaults. I'm awful caring
of a weapon. I mean, now she's become more violent
and we are just allowing her to run through the
criminal justice system. There is no consequences for her actions.
Why do we have laws and we're not going to

(01:16):
enforce them? But unfortunately this is very common in Josh
Hill's court. On the two thirty second.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, I'm just going to ask you about judge of
Josh Hill. That this was his particular case. He has
repeatedly done this with other people as well, So clearly
he's not afraid of any recrimination for doing what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Absolutely not. And he has been continuing to hold his
seat here in Harris County. And we hope that changes
and that people have had enough and can see past
politics and say, you know what, I want to save society,
regardless if it's a Republican or a Democrat on the seat.
This individual clearly cannot continue making these decisions in our community.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
How do these people get elected to begin with? I
guess the simplest answer is is that people don't do
a whole lot of research before they pull a lever
for a judge. In fact, a lot of people probably
don't even vote in the judges contest because they don't
know any of these people or what they stand for.
And therefore a very small amount of people that support
somebody like this can get them elected.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Absolutely so. Unfortunately, many people don't know who the candidates
are and they just vote for their particular party. In
Harris County, we've seen that time and time again with
repeat offenders like Hillary Younger, who is also a rogue
judge here in Harris County.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
So what is the answer other than trying to inform voters?
It seems that unfortunately, the only thing that really seems
to work is advertising. Is there any sort of a
way to raise enough political money to run ads against
these judges by name so that people understand exactly what
they have done and why voting for them is a
big mistake.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Absolutely so. Right now, there's some nonprofits that are working
on that actually is up for reelection in twenty twenty six.
But at this point, to me, it's some there's an
ethical violation. In my opinion, he took an oath to
uphold the law and he is refusing to do his job,
and to me, it's sickening. At what point do we
revoke somebody's probations after continuous violations?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, you know, a perfect world, I guess we would
be able to hold these judges criminally responsible for the
acts of the people that they're allowing out on bond.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, and there's actually in other states legislation that is
being passed that is making them civilly liable, and that's
where holds people accountable.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I would agree. Let's hope that happens. April. Thank you
for your time, April Laguri. She's a crime victim's advocate.
It's six twenty seven. It's time to take a look
at your money.