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Colone
The Examiner learned Thursday, Nov. 3, that a stand-in judge set bond at $750,000 for a one-time death row inmate who a jury previously convicted of capital murder.
Five years after jurors sentenced a now-44-year-old man to death for killing a mother and daughter – allegedly for the former calling to report him for a crime – a judge began consideration Nov. 2 for setting a “reasonable bond” for the defendant’s potential release from jail.
Joseph Kenneth Colone, 44, sat on death row for five years after his 2017 sentencing, which followed the 2010 double murder of Mary and Brianna Goodman. And, since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned that conviction March 2, he could be released as soon as Jan. 27, 2023, once the presiding guest judge has had time to review more than 200 pages of documents detailing Colone’s convictions.
Colone’s attorney, Mark Hochglaube, filed a writ for bail to be set ahead of the defendant’s retrial, ultimately asking Harris County’s Judge Brown (from the Eleventh Administrative Judicial Region of Texas) to set the bond at $100,000 – prosecutors asked for $2.5 million for the alleged double murderer.
Judge Brown set bond at $750,000 Nov. 3, according to information from the District Attorney's Office. For more on the story read more Examiner coverage here.