Aaron Persky, Judge in Brock Turner Sex Assault Case, Faces Recall Petition

Source: NBC News


JUN 26 2017, 10:10 PM ET
by ALEX JOHNSON


The process to remove the California judge who sentenced former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to only six months for sexual assault formally got under way Monday as organizers filed recall paperwork.

Fifty Santa Clara County community leaders — including San Jose Vice Mayor Magdalena Carrasco — submitted their notice of intention to collect signatures to put the recall of Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky on the June 2018 ballot.

Persky was widely condemned last year for sentencing Turner, then 20, to just six months in the county jail — he ended up serving only three months — after he was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus. Turner was also put on three years' probation.

"Santa Clara County residents deserve a judge who will protect victims — not rapists," the recall organizers said in their petition (PDF) Monday.

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