An accused killer’s escape from the country is renewing outrage toward leftist Virginia prosecutor Steve Descano’s reliance on insanity pleas in violent cases.

Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda boarded a plane to Turkey in July after the Fairfax County commonwealth’s attorney gave him an insanity plea agreement over a landlord’s 2019 killing, leading to loose restrictions requiring him to report to a mental health facility, court records show. Critics say Toshpulodzoda’s case is the latest in a lenient pattern from Descano, who took office in 2020 after receiving campaign funding from left-wing megadonor George Soros and has faced two failed recall efforts over criminal justice policies.