A deranged vagrant charged in a random Manhattan slashing this week was set to be locked up on bail after a hauntingly similar attack last month — until he talked the judge out of it, court records show.

Demitri Marshall, 32, who was busted Monday for allegedly slashing a 27-year-old straphanger outside a Lower East Side subway station, went before Bronx Criminal Court Judge Ralph Wolf on Sept. 15 on charges that he attacked another passenger in the Bronx in August.

Bronx prosecutors asked the judge that Marshall, a repeat offender with a stint in state prison under his belt, be held on $50,000 cash bail or a $150,000 bond in the Aug. 28 Bronx attack. 4

“Well, certainly I have information before me that I would be perfectly — it would be perfectly reasonable for me to set bail he

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