Soft-On-Crime Judge Freed 22-Time Offender, Now He Faces Disturbing New Charge

A Georgia judge’s shocking leniency allowed a serial menace back on the streets to terrorize locals, and it culminated in an attempted rape at a popular park in Savannah, Georgia.

Judge Claire Williams repeatedly handed 30-year-old Lashawa Doyle a soft-touch “get out of jail free” card, granting him suspended sentences and credit for time served in almost all of his recent cases. Despite a staggering rap sheet boasting 22 arrests since 2020, which included eight arrests in 2026 alone, the judge consistently cut him loose without forcing him to serve any real jail time.

The tragic result of this judicial revolving door unfolded at Daffin Park when Doyle allegedly launched an assault on a female victim at a public restroom. City workers overheard the struggle and alerted an off-duty police officer, who rushed in to apprehend Doyle and halt the attack. Doyle now faces charges including criminal attempt to commit a felony, aggravated sexual battery, false imprisonment, and public indecency.

BREAKING: Man arrested for attempted r*pe at Georgia park has 22 arrests since 2020, eight in 2026 alone and was just released from jail 17 days ago

Judge Claire Williams is the one who keeps releasing Lashawa Doyle.

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Just 17 days prior, Doyle had walked free after his latest release. Out of his last 15 arrests, he was consistently released “on his own recognizance” or given credit for time already spent behind bars. His arrests included a February assault on a woman at a transit stop — that left her facial features bruised —  and explicit sexual acts near college housing.

Though Judge Williams ordered Doyle to avoid new offenses, prosecutors somehow failed to file motions to revoke his suspended sentences even as his arrest count surged. Williams’ leniency comes amid her successful re-election campaign in May, where she touted her decades-long tenure on the bench as an example of “equitable” service.

Local leaders are fiercely blasting the system for failing law-abiding citizens. Alderman Nick Palumbo slammed the continuous releases, stating:

This is somebody that has time and time again violated the trust of our community. And I would love to hear accountability from the Judge and I’ve asked from the district attorney’s office, their accountability mechanism to what is happening here. Housed or unhoused, mentally ill or no, this is a violent sex offender in our community and people have a right to feel safe and not be terrorized in this manner. This could have gone — if it had not been for the Savannah Police Department, the park employees and the innocent bystanders that called this in — an entirely very different story.

Georgia State Representative Jesse Petrea echoed those frustrations, adding:

This is the same old story over and over again. And sadly, the people of Chatham County have again been failed by the system. … As a legislator, we have in Georgia provided every opportunity for the judicial system to hold anyone like this individual accountable for his crimes and to keep him away from the people — in the protection of the innocent and the frail and the vulnerable and the weak. All of that is there. It all hinges on one thing. And that is that the judicial system, our judges, our district attorneys and our sheriffs must do their job to hold these people accountable.