Judge Bowen oversaw 113 cases where the top charge at arraignment was a violent felony.
He released the accused (“cut loose” without bail or pretrial detention) in 87 of those 113 cases (about 77%). We give him a 81.5% leniency rate. He has handled some high-profile violent cases where bail/detention was imposed on certain rape indictments, but the overall pattern highlighted in available analyses is high pretrial release rates for violent felony charges.