(asshole) Judge Who Coddled Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Once Ran as Tough on Rape

(this story just gets worse and worse. makes one wonder who, or what, that judge's payoff was)

Justice for Some06.06.16 11:00 PM ET
Judge Who Coddled Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Once Ran as Tough on Rape


Years before the California judge let preppy Stanford rapist Brock Turner off with a lighter-than-light sentence, he bragged about prosecuting sex crimes.


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Judge Aaron Persky of Santa Clara Superior Court takes pride in having once been a sex crimes prosecutor.

“I became a criminal prosecutor for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, where I now prosecute sex crimes and hate crimes,” he wrote in a biography for the California League of Women Voters when he was running for a judgeship in 2002. “I focus on the prosecution of sexually violent predators, working to keep the most dangerous sex offenders in custody in mental hospitals.” Persky likely figured that his résumé would go over well with women, but he nonetheless lost the election to a fellow prosecutor. He was appointed to the bench the following year by then Gov. Gray Davis.

The one-time battler of sexual predators is now reviled everywhere as the judge who sentenced a 20-year-old former Stanford swimming star named Brock Turner to a term of just six months for assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.

Turner will be eligible for release on good behavior after serving just three months. Persky made that determination last week despite the searing 12-page letter the 23-year-old victim read from in court, telling Turner, “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice.”


Also despite Turner having insisted on going to trial in the first place, thereby forcing his victim to relive the January 2015 assault on the witness stand, sobbing and becoming so distraught that the prosecutor had to ask the judge for a recess. And despite Turner having sat impassive as his defense attorney cross-examined the victim about her partying habits, as if she were somehow to blame for what followed. And despite Turner allowing on the stand that he sought out drunk girls at parties and insisting that the victim had given her verbal consent.

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