Nice Bond

CWB blog covered the judge shuffling going on at bond court a week or so ago.

It didn't take long for the first scandal to hit:

• Whoa, Nelly! Arthur Willis, one of the newly-assigned judges on Cook County’s bond court bench, took a whack at setting bail recently and…WOW! He’s going to be something to watch.
  
  In one of the first cases before Willis last week, three people were charged with Class X felony armed robbery after they allegedly held up and battered a man on a CTA train in the Loop. Class X is the second most serious level of crime in Illinois behind murder.
  
  [...] In court, Willis set bail for Thomas and Goodwin at $2,000, meaning that they can go free by paying a deposit bond of just $200. For a Class X felony allegation. Willis said the two will have to go on electronic monitoring when they post bail.

Well, $200 and a bracelet that works 50% of the time. That will certainly show them!

CWB also has the videos up from the robbery. We could have sworn the CTA was a "gun free" zone.