The issue here is in black and white...

Obviously.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A state senator is taking a judge to task for sentencing a former University of Wisconsin-Madison student accused of sexual assault to three years in prison.

Twenty-two-year-old Alec Cook of Edina, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three female students as well as choking or stalking two others. He was initially charged with more than 20 crimes against nearly a dozen women.

Cook faced up to 40 years in prison; prosecutors wanted 19 years. Dane County Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke gave him three years on Thursday.

Sen. Lena Taylor, a Milwaukee Democrat, said in a statement Friday that Ehlke for some reason thought Cook was special and let him off the hook and questioned the message Ehlke sent to Cook's victims.

She said Ehlke gave a 16-year-old African-American, Adore Thomas, 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting one woman. Taylor said, "The disparity in sentencing in these cases is deeply troubling."

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Lawmaker-Judge-who-gave-Cook-lenient-sentence-gave-black-teen-20-years-486284141.html