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Total Recall: Judge Aaron Persky Voted Out

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Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky was recalled in an election June 2018 after he sentenced an ex-Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. (Jason Doiy/The Recorder)

#TBT on The Bay: Sixty percent of voters decided to remove Aaron Persky from his judgeship in Santa Clara County. He’s the judge who handed a six-month sentence to former Stanford athlete Brock Turner after Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015. On an earlier episode of The Bay, we asked an expert: What are the consequences of recalling a judge because of an unpopular decision? We revisit that episode today.

Guest: Jessica Levinson, elections law professor at Loyola Law School

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