Defendants get easy break from beaten judge

A day after losing his re-election bid, a Texas judge released nearly all of the juvenile defendants who appeared before him yesterday after he asked them whether they planned to kill anyone. Harris County prosecutors expressed concerns after Judge Glenn Devlin made the decision in Houston. The juveniles face charges ranging from misdemeanours to violent crimes, the Houston Chronicle reported.Devlin, a longtime Republican jurist, rescheduled all of the cases for the first week in January, after the Democrat who beat him takes the bench.