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沙恩·詹姆斯在得克萨斯州组织项目的“正义权”项目中以300美元保释金获释，随后被控杀害六人
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詹姆斯·塔拉里科以“圣经依据”为进步政策辩护
美国参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科表示，他支持全民医保等政治立场的根源在于“圣经依据”。（图片来源：X/@jamestalarico，9月27日）
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美国参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科表示，他“深感荣幸”能获得得克萨斯州组织项目的背书，他称该组织的工作“无可替代”。而该组织此前曾运营一个慈善保释基金，帮助沙恩·詹姆斯获释，后者随后被控实施了一场造成六人死亡的杀人狂潮。
得克萨斯州组织项目（TOP）是一家进步主义维权组织，于今年5月背书了塔拉里科的参议院竞选。该组织此前运营的一项慈善保释项目截至2021年9月，已累计发放超过100万美元保释金，帮助得州超过675名被告获释。
2023年末，当局指控詹姆斯杀害六人，且记录显示TOP早在近两年前就为其缴纳了保释金，当时詹姆斯面临三项针对其父母和兄弟姐妹的轻量级家庭袭击指控，该项目因此遭到强烈审视。
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詹姆斯在2022年3月获释次日就切断了法院要求的GPS监控设备，促使法院发布三份重新逮捕令。尽管存在未执行的逮捕令，詹姆斯仍潜逃了21个月，随后当局称他在圣安东尼奥和奥斯汀多地实施了一系列袭击，造成包括其父母在内的六人死亡。
2026年8月31日，得克萨斯州参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科在克尔维尔的凯尤克斯剧院的竞选集会上发表演讲。塔拉里科正在全州范围内开展竞选活动，在11月3日的大选前，他与共和党候选人、得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿的竞争十分胶着。（布兰登·贝尔/盖蒂图片社）
案发后，TOP承认其与贝尔克斯县公设辩护人办公室合作，在詹姆斯的保释金被降至总计300美元后为其缴纳了保释金。该组织表示，詹姆斯通过了当时基于其所面临轻罪指控的筛查流程，并强调保释组织无法预测被告的未来行为。
“我们承认，我们的评估无法预判个人的未来行为，”TOP在案发后表示，并宣布将对该项目进行内部审查。
但塔拉里科今年早些时候仍热情地接受了TOP的背书。
“能获得这份背书，我深感荣幸，”塔拉里科在该组织宣布支持他时说道，并称赞TOP花了15年多时间在得州黑人和拉丁裔社区建立联系。
“这一基层架构无可替代，”他说。
进步派塔拉里科背离拜登开放边境政策，在得州参议院竞选中试图在关键议题上采取温和立场
背书声明称，TOP成员在支持塔拉里科之前曾与他会面，而该组织领导层表示，这位参议院候选人对其工作表现出了熟悉度。
塔拉里科正在挑战共和党籍得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，这是全美最受关注的参议院竞选之一，民主党希望打破得州州级选举数十年的连败纪录。
2026年2月24日，华盛顿特区国会联合会议期间，得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿抵达国情咨文演讲现场。（安娜·莫尼姆/盖蒂图片社）
沙恩·詹姆斯并非唯一一名通过TOP项目获释后又陷入更多法律纠纷的被告。
2024年KSAT电视台的调查发现，自2022年10月监狱官员开始专门追踪该组织的活动以来，TOP已在贝尔克斯县至少196起案件中为被告缴纳保释金。其中58起案件（近30%）后来发布了重新逮捕被告的逮捕令。虽然未能出庭是这些逮捕令最常见的原因，但记录显示，部分被告在TOP为其获释后还面临了新的刑事指控。
其中一人是小本杰明·桑切斯，他是一名有两次 prior 入室盗窃定罪记录的重刑犯，TOP在其因涉嫌闯入圣安东尼奥一家纪念品商店被捕11天后为其缴纳了保释金。据KSAT报道，因审前违规（包括因新的入室盗窃指控被捕），后来发布了对桑切斯的重新逮捕令。他最终在两起新的入室盗窃案中认罪，并被判处六年监禁。
TOP为其保释工作辩护称，此举旨在防止低收入被告仅因无力缴纳保释金而被关押。该组织2021年表示，其“正义权”活动已花费超过100万美元，为超过675人保释，其中绝大多数资金用于贝尔克斯县。
塔拉里科因咨询公司丰厚薪酬面临“公然腐败”指控，竞选团队予以反驳
该组织的保释维权行动也与塔拉里科的立法记录产生了交集。
TOP在2021年得州立法会议期间反对HB 20法案，将限制社区保释基金的努力描述为对这些组织的“右翼攻击”。根据得州众议院议事记录，塔拉里科在2021年5月投票反对众议院版本的HB 20法案。
2021年的得州州议会大厦。（亚伦·普/鲍尔-格里芬/GC图片社）
塔拉里科的竞选团队在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中反驳了该投票的意义，辩称他反对的版本与后续审议的法案存在实质性差异，并指出他最近对更严格的保释限制表示支持。
“詹姆斯始终致力于保护得州民众的安全。这就是为什么他投票反对为暴力罪犯保释，支持起诉暴力重刑犯，并支持 Abbott 州长签署的被称为‘得州历史上最严格的保释改革法案’的原因，”塔拉里科竞选团队发言人JT·恩尼斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“本次竞选唯一危及妇女和儿童的候选人是肯·帕克斯顿，他达成了爱泼斯坦式的 sweetheart 交易，让一名恋童癖者仅在狱中关押29天后就重回街头，”恩尼斯补充道。
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竞选团队向福克斯新闻数字频道指出，塔拉里科在2025年投票支持共和党州长格雷格·雅培倡导的一项保释改革法案的部分内容。该法案包含一项宪法修正案，扩大了法官可拒绝保释的严重暴力犯罪被告的范围。
竞选团队还辩称，塔拉里科反对的2021年众议院版本HB 20法案包含了与慈善保释组织无关的更广泛条款，并指出当时有批评称该提案仍允许有足够资金的潜在危险被告自行获释。
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‘Honored’: Talarico endorsed by group that bailed out violent criminal later accused of mass murder
2026-10-05T16:30:37-04:00 / Fox News
Shane James was released on $300 bond through the Texas Organizing Project’s Right2Justice program before allegedly killing six people
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Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico said he was “honored” to receive the endorsement of the Texas Organizing Project, whose work he described as “irreplaceable” after the organization previously operated a charitable bail fund that helped secure the release of Shane James — later accused of carrying out a six-person killing spree.
The Texas Organizing Project (TOP), a progressive activist organization that endorsed Talarico’s Senate campaign in May, previously operated a charitable bail program that, by September 2021, had distributed more than $1 million to secure the release of more than 675 defendants across Texas.
The program drew intense scrutiny in late 2023 after authorities accused James of killing six people and records revealed that TOP had posted his bail nearly two years earlier while he faced three misdemeanor family-assault charges involving his parents and a sibling.
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James cut off his court-ordered GPS monitor the day after his March 2022 release, prompting a court to issue three warrants for his re-arrest. Despite the outstanding warrants, James remained free for 21 months before authorities say he carried out a series of attacks across San Antonio and Austin that left six people dead, including his parents.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally at the Cailloux Theater on Aug. 31, 2026, in Kerrville, Texas. Talarico is campaigning across the state in a close race against Republican candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
TOP acknowledged after the killings that it had bailed James out in coordination with the Bexar County public defender’s office after his bond was reduced to a combined $300. The organization said James had passed its screening process based on the misdemeanor charges he faced at the time and stressed that bail organizations cannot predict defendants’ future behavior.
“We acknowledge that our assessments cannot anticipate the future actions of individuals,” TOP said following the killings, announcing that it would conduct an internal review of the program.
Talarico nevertheless enthusiastically welcomed TOP’s endorsement earlier this year.
“I am honored to earn this endorsement,” Talarico said when the group announced its backing, praising TOP for spending more than 15 years developing relationships in Black and Latino communities across Texas.
“That infrastructure is irreplaceable,” he said.
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The endorsement announcement said TOP members had met with Talarico before backing him, while the organization’s leadership said the Senate candidate had demonstrated familiarity with its work.
Talarico is challenging Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races, as Democrats seek to break a decades-long losing streak in statewide Texas elections.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives for the State of the Union address during a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2026, in Washington, DC.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Shane James was not the only defendant released through TOP’s program who subsequently encountered additional legal trouble.
A 2024 KSAT investigation found TOP had bonded defendants out in at least 196 Bexar County cases since jail officials began specifically tracking the organization’s activity in October 2022. Warrants were later issued for defendants’ re-arrest in 58 of those cases, or nearly 30%. While failure to appear in court was the most common reason for those warrants, records showed some defendants also faced new criminal charges after TOP secured their release.
Among them was Benjamin Sanchez Jr., a convicted felon with two prior burglary convictions who TOP bonded out 11 days after his arrest in connection with the burglary of a San Antonio souvenir store. A warrant for Sanchez’s re-arrest was later issued after pretrial violations that included his arrest on new burglary charges, according to KSAT. He ultimately pleaded guilty in the two newer burglary cases and was sentenced to six years in prison.
TOP has defended its bail work as an effort to prevent low-income defendants from remaining incarcerated simply because they cannot afford bond. The organization said in 2021 that its Right2Justice campaign had spent more than $1 million to bail out more than 675 people, with the vast majority of the money distributed in Bexar County.
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The organization’s bail advocacy also intersected with Talarico’s legislative record.
TOP opposed HB 20 during the 2021 Texas legislative session, describing efforts to restrict community bail funds as part of a “right-wing assault” on the organizations. Talarico voted against a House version of HB 20 in May 2021, according to the Texas House Journal.
The Texas State Capitol in Austin.(AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
Talarico’s campaign pushed back on the significance of that vote in a statement to Fox News Digital, arguing that the version he opposed differed substantially from the legislation ultimately considered later in the process, and pointing to his more recent support for tougher bail restrictions.
“James will always work to keep Texans safe. That’s why he voted to deny bail for violent criminals, supports prosecuting violent felons, and backed Governor Abbott’s bill that was called the ‘strongest bail reform package in Texas history,’” Talarico campaign spokesperson JT Ennis told Fox News Digital.
“The only candidate in this race endangering women and children is Ken Paxton, who cut an Epstein-style sweetheart deal that let a pedophile back on our streets after just 29 days in jail,” Ennis added.
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The campaign pointed Fox News Digital to Talarico’s 2025 vote for part of a bail reform package championed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The package included a constitutional amendment expanding the circumstances under which judges could deny bail to defendants accused of certain serious violent crimes.
The campaign also argued that the 2021 House version of HB 20 that Talarico opposed contained broader provisions unrelated to charitable bail organizations, and noted criticism at the time that the proposal would continue allowing potentially dangerous defendants with sufficient money to secure their own release.
Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.
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