A criminal-coddling Big Apple judge with just 13 months on the bench has already sprung at least three maniacs — including the unhinged nutter who allegedly pushed a woman into a moving subway this week, The Post has learned.
Judge Marva Brown cut loose Markeese Brazelis on a 3rd-degree sexual abuse charge last week for groping a woman on a C train platform at West 50th Street and Eighth Avenue, despite the charge being bail-eligible, according to court records and law enforcement sources.
Four days later, Brazelis, 26, allegedly shoved a 23-year-old straphanger into the side of a speeding A train at a Washington Heights subway station; later, he made a terrifying confession to cops that he was “high” and “mad” during the attack, according to prosecutors.
“This judge needs to wise up,” MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber told The Post.
“You don’t have to be a criminal justice expert to know that setting violent recidivist criminals loose on our streets puts New Yorkers in real danger.”
A spokesperson for the Manhattan DA’s Office said it didn’t request bail in sexual abuse case due to the limited criminal history available for Brazelis. The mentally ill man also had been charged with trespassing last week for entering a prohibited area of a Bergen Street subway station, sources previously said.
The jurist’s dangerous decision last month isn’t an outlier. Other cases where Brown sprung violent perps without bail include:
- In February, Brown, 43, brushed aside prosecutors’ $15,000 cash bail request for Amira Hunter, who was caught on camera bashing a subway cellist in the head with a metal water bottle at the 34th Street-Herald Square station before fleeing. The Manhattan DA’s Office argued the subway psycho, who had at least eight prior arrests, had failed to show up to three out of her five court dates in the year before the unprovoked attack and should be held on bail, but Brown let the unhinged assailant go on supervised release. Less than a week later, Hunter, 23, was busted again for trying to swipe a $325 Moncler hat from a Midtown Nordstrom, prompting Brown to issue a $500 bail order. Hunter later pled guilty to assaulting the cellist.
- Nunchuck-wielding lunatic Bryant Kenyatta, who allegedly fractured podcaster Stephen Lewis’ arm with the weapon in an unprovoked Midtown attack in April. Kenyatta, 50, had 12 prior arrests. Brown shrugged off prosecutors’ request to hold him on $100,000 cash bail on felony assault and criminal weapon possession charges, and let him out on supervised release.
Brown “lets everyone go” because she “doesn’t believe bail is a necessity,” a Manhattan police officer with over two-plus decades raged.
“It puts all these people back into the streets to hurt other people in the city, and it seems like it doesn’t matter to her,” said the veteran cop.
Brown, elected in November 2023 to serve a 10-year term in Brooklyn Civil Court, ran on the Democratic and far-left Working Families Party lines. The ex-Legal Aid attorney, who previously served on the board of the nonprofit Families and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted, received endorsements from liberal pols’ such as state Assemblyman Brian Cunningham and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.
Following her win, leftist City Councilmember Chi Osse (D-Brooklyn), whose district overlaps with Community Board 8, where Brown previously was a member, praised her as “amazing” and “an indispensable community member.”
Brown, who also goes by Marva Brown-Henry, is currently pulling down a taxpayer-funded salary of $216,400 as a city Civil Court judge. A spokesperson for the Office of Court Administration said she is currently sitting in Manhattan Criminal Court in a routine assignment to help with the court’s “operational needs.”
During a prior 2021 run for a Brooklyn Civil Court gavel, Brown insisted in a video interview that, as a judge, she would be “fair and impartial” to those who come before her, but also would apply her own discretion.
“I have empathy, I have foresight to say, ‘This person can be better and can do better if given the proper tools and opportunities,’” she said.
New York is the only state where penal laws bizarrely bar judges from considering a perp’s dangerousness when setting bail.
But in many of these cases, Brown could have considered the lengthy rap sheets of the perps before her as disincentivizing them from returning to court because they’d likely face a stiffer penalty, according to Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a former senior trial counsel with the Manhattan DA’s Office.
“Obviously when you hear of one judge releasing so many violent recidivists that go on to release, it’s extremely infuriating and disheartening,” said Jennifer Harrison, founder of the group Victims Rights NY.
“Unfortunately, there are not enough good people to step up to the plate and run against these woke idiots and lunatics that are running the asylum.”
An OCA spokesperson said the office doesn’t comment on bail decisions and that judges “have discretion in making bail decisions in accordance with the law and based solely on an individualized assessment of a defendant’s risk of flight.”
Brown did not respond to requests for comment.
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