Judge J. Mac Davis

Waukesha County Circuit Judge J. Mac Davis really screwed up when he reduced Mark Benson's bail from $1 million to $500,000.

That move enabled Benson to walk out of jail. Naturally, Benson violated the conditions of his bail.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A tip from a delivery service driver that Mark M. Benson was receiving a parcel from a pharmaceutical company in Florida led to Benson's arrest Tuesday and return to the Waukesha County Jail for violating conditions of his bail, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Authorities searched Benson's home about 6 p.m. Tuesday, seizing controlled medications and three handguns, three rifles and in excess of 20,000 rounds of ammunition, Assistant District Attorney Kevin M. Osborne said.

Benson, the former physician charged in the April 25 traffic deaths of a popular Oconomowoc educator, her unborn child and her 10-year-old daughter, was charged with two counts of felony bail jumping Wednesday for violating the conditions of his bail.

Under the terms of his bail, Benson was not allowed to obtain prescription drugs from more than one pharmacy, and he was not permitted to possess firearms.

Waukesha County Circuit Judge J. Mac Davis ordered Benson held on $150,000 bail in the new case.

What's with the $150,000 bail?

It doesn't appear that Davis wants to keep Benson off the streets.

It's time for Davis to grow a spine.

...The Waukesha County Metro Drug Enforcement Group executed a search warrant at Benson's Summit home after the delivery driver called authorities about the package addressed to Benson from Palm Beach Pharmaceuticals in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

The driver knew Benson had been charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle and allegations were that Benson was impaired on prescription drugs when the crash occurred, the criminal complaint says.

Kudos to that delivery driver for being aware and getting involved. The driver is doing more to protect the community than Davis is.

...In the latest case, authorities determined that Benson already has had prescriptions filled at an Oconomowoc pharmacy.

Based on that, investigators obtained a warrant to search the package before it was delivered.

They found multiple bottles, some of which contained testosterone propionate, testosterone cypionate and stanozolol, all of which require prescriptions, the complaint says.

The substances are steroids.

The package then was delivered to Benson, who was taken into custody, the complaint says.

The drugs are non-narcotic, Osborne said, but nonetheless, Benson violated the bail condition that requires him to obtain all prescriptions from the same pharmacy.

Davis revised Benson's bail conditions, among them that Benson can get prescriptions only from the Oconomowoc pharmacy, The Prescription Center, and he can use only a prescription issued by an authorized prescriber in Wisconsin.

...Osborne said he plans to file a motion concerning Benson's $500,000 bail in the homicide case.

He said he could ask a judge to require Benson to forfeit the bail because of violations or increase the bail, or both.

I hope that Osborne asks Davis to require Benson to forfeit the $500,000 bail AND increase the bail.

Benson belongs in jail.

How many does times does this repeat offender need to repeat again before Davis determines that it's in the public's interest for Benson to be kept off the streets?

How many more people does Benson have to kill?
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Read the criminal complaint.