Judge Mary Marubio ordered 19-year-old Darrick Bender to go home under a nighttime curfew and said he must avoid getting near the animal’s owners, CWB Chicago reported Tuesday.

Female judge in Chicago letting a black juvenile off without punishment for an obvious crime?

Surely he didn't do anything stupid like run from the cops right?

Two men matching descriptions apparently ran from officers at the scene. Bender ducked behind a house, tossing a backpack over a fence moments before the officers nabbed him.

The bag reportedly held a loaded 9-millimeter handgun featuring a laser sight, loose ammunition, and a pair of 50-round drum magazines.

Oh well, maybe he wasn't ID'd by the victim?

The neighbor later identified the suspect, whom he claimed shot his American Staffordshire Terrier in the head.

Hmm. Looks pretty open and shut.

“Prosecutors charged Bender with aggravated cruelty to animals, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and reckless discharge of a firearm endangering others. And they asked Judge Marubio to keep Bender in jail as a public safety threat, court records show,” the CWB Chicago report said.

However, Marubio decided to release the suspect, and he was also told to check in with the court’s pretrial services division along with the other stipulations.

Damn, maybe this is just a weird oversight?

Following the decision, an Illinois man who allegedly abandoned his dead wife’s body on the side of a road was freed due to the cashless bail system, the outlet reported Friday.

Uhhhhh nope.

Don't worry! If violent criminals with illegal guns shoot your beloved dog and run from police, destroying evidence in the process, they'll get hit with...curfew.