Judge in Brock Turner sentencing recalled

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

The California judge who made national headlines for sentencing a college athlete to six months in jail for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman was recalled Tuesday.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on the path to being removed from office with four years remaining in his term, according to unofficial results from the recall vote. He would be the first California judge to be recalled in more than 85 years.

The unofficial results show nearly 59 percent of voters in favor of a recall, with 39 percent of precincts reporting.

Persky sentenced then 19-year-old Brock Turner to six months in jail and three years of probation for his sexual assault conviction in 2016. Turner faced up to 14 years in prison for the crime.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/390923-judge-in-brock-turner-sentencing-appears-to-be-recalled

[Equinox Moon]

1. Voters oust California judge in Brock Turner sexual assault case

Voters oust California judge in Brock Turner sexual assault case
after ex-student given just six months in prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/voters-recall-judge-in-stanford-campus-sexual-assault-case

[Kittycow]

2. Wow, four years left!

Good on ya, California! That four years represents a lot of lives that Perksy can't screw over with his biased rulings.

[Honeycombe8]

3. Good! Wish there would've been more of a repercussion, but we take what we can get. nt

[mopinko]

4. we need to get good at this.

we need to be watching thug appointed judges when they start sentencing aa's to longer sentences than whites.

[Paladin]

5. Adios, motherfucker.

This sort of thing needs to happen---on our side---more often. Nothing better than a little raw fear of an enraged electorate to slap public officials into line.

[Fritz Walter]

6. I'll bet the WH and/or DOJ is already on the phone with him!

He could join cheetolini’s defense team (just a matter of time before Rudy outlives his usefulness), or become the latest Keebler elf.

Sadly, he’d fit right in...

[irisblue]

7. See ya!

[kairos12]

8. Add him to the Shitgibbon's legal team. He would fit right in.

[cstanleytech]

9. It should have been a minimum of 4 years in prison with

10 years of probation and not the six months in prison and only a few years of probation.
Had this judge done that he might still be in office not that I think he cares probably as he will probably still get retirement benefits Assuming he's entitled to any.

[lagomorph777]

14. Now he's free to start a gig on Faux "News"

[7962]

10. Good! Maybe send a message to others who would give such lenient sentences.

looks like a bi partisan rebuke too

[stevenleser]

11. This is great, but the problem in this instance is deeper than the judge

Who are these folks in the Probation department who made this recommendation? They should all be fired or reassigned. Regardless of that though, the judge should not have followed their recommendation.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Meanwhile a black teen got 15 years for stealing some shoes...

[Blue_Tires]

13. Like clockwork, the "useful idiot" left is all over this...

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