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Judge Melissa Morris of the 263rd Criminal District Court is facing pushback after she lowered the bond for a man charged with fentanyl murder by delivery to just $100,000—allowing him to walk free—despite multiple prior bail condition violations.
The suspect in the case is Omarion Bailey, who already has a lengthy record. According to Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers: “You have an individual who’s charged with stalking, charged with retaliation, and while on bond, he gets charged with possession of a controlled substance.”
According to Kahan, Bailey had tried to sell fentanyl-laced pills to an undercover DPS officer, and his bail for the stalking case still was not revoked. Kahan also emphasized that this stalking case was one of the worst he’d ever seen, with Bailey sending nearly 200 vile text messages to his alleged victim.
In total, Kahan says Bailey has had his bond conditions altered six different times—something he called out, saying: “It makes you wonder why even bother having bond conditions when you repeatedly violate them and there are no consequences for your actions.”
He went on to say that we should have zero tolerance for bond violations in cases like this. Instead, Bailey’s bond was lowered all the way from $250,000 to just $100,000, allowing him to be released from jail while he awaits trial in multiple cases.
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