In late August, we learned some not-so-great news in the case involving Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a 19-year-old former DOGE staffer who was allegedly assaulted in the early morning hours of Sunday, August 3rd, in Washington, D.C., after reportedly coming to the defense of a woman, said to be his "significant other," who allegedly was being carjacked.
As RedState documented, the D.C. Superior Court judge in the case, Joe Biden appointee Kendra D. Briggs, ruled that both of the 15-year-old suspects who were being held at the Youth Services Center should be released, with the female suspect going to a youth shelter, while the male suspect would be subjected to home arrest while at home with his parents.
At the time, it was also reported that "the prosecutor and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb both opposed the decision, requesting that the teenagers remain detained at DYRS."
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Unfortunately, the update to that update is not good, as we're learning that though new charges are being filed, including a felony charge, the female suspect has now been released to the custody of her parents as well. Plus, a plea deal may be in the works ahead of the next hearing:
At a status hearing yesterday, the two juvenile defendants — a 15-year-old boy and girl who had initially been charged with unarmed carjacking — were arraigned on new charges: two counts of simple assault for the female defendant; three counts of simple assault, one count of felony assault, and one count of robbery for the male defendant.
But following the recommendations of court social services, Judge Kendra Briggs ordered the young woman to be moved from a youth facility back to the custody of her parents, subject to a 24-hour curfew. The young man is already at home with his parents. Because the defendants are underage, aspects of the case remain shrouded in mystery, with things like police bodycam footage off-limits to the general public.
The trial — which was initially scheduled for late September and could theoretically reveal more specifics of what happened during the 3 a.m. incident in early August — now seems farther off, if it happens at all. At the hearing, defense attorneys and prosecutors indicated that they may commence preliminary plea talks. The next hearing is set for Sept. 24.
Needless to say, this isn't going to make President Trump happy, nor D.C. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, especially seeing as this case was one of a series of high-profile summer cases in D.C. that prompted Trump to federalize law enforcement in the nation's capital city in early August.
Though information on the suspects and specifics on the alleged assault are limited, learning that both are now back out on the streets ahead of the next hearing and a possible plea deal is going to contribute more to the climate of fear in D.C., where repeat offenders are also a big problem (for the record, we don't know if the suspects are repeat offenders) which Trump is trying to address.
Compounding the issue is that the Metropolitan Police Department's news release at the time of the alleged offense indicated that "multiple suspects remain outstanding," so there are others out there who allegedly participated in the alleged crime who remain at large.
Crime crackdowns involve multistep processes that obviously go beyond arresting suspects. It also involves throwing the book at the alleged offenders to send a message to other would-be offenders that if you do the crime, you do the time.
But this is D.C. we're talking about here, with woke leftist judges and soft-on-crime prosecutors like Schwalb, all of whom make getting the city safe again that much harder.
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