CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- Iryna’s Law is already drawing pushback from some in the legal community, saying it will crowd jails and courtrooms.

Iryna’s Law, named for Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed and killed on Charlotte’s light rail in August, is a tough-on-crime approach that Republican lawmakers passed through the General Assembly on Tuesday.

Decarlos Brown, the man accused of killing Zarutska, had a violent criminal history, but in January, he was only charged with a non-violent misdemeanor crime and released by a magistrate on a written promise.

“This creates, or basically does away with written promises to appear. It creates a new concept of what would be considered a violent offense. It creates a protocol under which a judicial official would be required to order a me

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