The Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic has removed another judge for poor performance. This time the figure involved Judge Francisco Antonio Inoa Bisono of Santiago de los Caballeros who was found guilty of serious faults in the exercise of his functions. According to Diario Libre, the nation’s highest court accepted the opinion rendered by the Attorney General’s Office, which asked the court to fire the magistrate in question. The Supreme Court found that to accept the activities of the judge of the Instructional Chamber who imposed punishments in a highly irregular manner would be to ignore the responsibility he held to protect and defend the people. The court referred to the questionable decision of ordering house arrest for Jeffry Bencosme Pena, accused of killing National Police Sergeant Santiago Sebastian Fortuna Sanchez in cold blood. This slap on the wrist was given in spite of the fact the prosecutor had warned the magistrate that the accused was a flight risk, since he was a United States citizen. The high court said that the fired magistrate had acted unjustly in saying that “the Prosecutor had not demonstrated that the accused was a flight risk.” The judge’s verdict even mentioned that the murder weapon had been found on the accused, and that it was an illegal weapon. As was reported in all of the papers, Bencosme fled the country hours after the judge placed him under “house arrest.” Inoa Bisono’s is the second firing in as many weeks for the Supreme Court.