After Marion Judge Jason Warner and his wife Julia were granted to be released from prison on bond earlier this week, many in the Marion community have taken to social media to express their frustrations.
Posts and comments on Facebook have been swirling over the last few days after the news broke. These comments include community members calling this decision corrupt and many questioned if the common person would be given the same treatment as an elected official. In turn, it prompted an online petition titled, "Keep Jason Warner in Prison" started by a Marion resident.
This petition has now met its signatures goal twice. While it was originally looking for 500, it exceeded that mark earlier this week and bumped the goal to 1,000. On Wednesday night, the petition hit that total and is now looking for 1,500 signatures. At the time of writing this article, it had more than 1,200 signatures and continued to rise.