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"content": "\u003cp>The reaction has been swift, viral and unrelenting. Shortly after Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced an ex-Stanford University swimmer to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, the victim’s emotional 12-page court \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.ktk1JzabGr#.lm1P6OdGb1\">statement\u003c/a> drew 13 million readers online, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/california-state-house-recall-judge-aaron-persky?source_location=movement\">cyber-petition\u003c/a> demanding the judge’s removal garnered well over a million signatures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday night, the judge himself had been, at his own request, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/26/judge-aaron-persky-brock-turner-case/\" target=\"_blank\">removed from hearing criminal cases altogether\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the judge’s reassignment to civil court, announced in a statement by the county’s presiding judge, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.recallaaronpersky.com/\">recall\u003c/a> movement is moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He can still transfer back to hearing criminal cases any time he chooses,” said Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a friend of the victim’s family who is organizing the recall. “Furthermore, judicial bias is just as serious regardless of whether a case is civil or criminal. Many issues affecting women are heard in civil court every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a recall is rare nationwide, and by design, California’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recalls/procedure-recalling-state-and-local-officials/\">system\u003c/a> makes it difficult. But amid a constellation of factors, some legal experts believe we could be plunging into a new era in which judges increasingly fear losing their jobs over unpopular decisions -- and that, in turn, may influence how they behave on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence suggests that judges tend to hand down stiffer sentences shortly before they have to face the voters in retention elections. And although there is little research on the effects of judicial recalls because there have been so few of them, growing mistrust in the justice system and the rise of social media could change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are less inclined to be deferential to their public institutions than was once the case,\" said Kevin Cole, a professor at University of San Diego School of Law. \"And it’s easier for criticism to spread. Now all you need is an internet connection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California voters initially gave themselves the ability to oust judges by recall in 1911, it was seen as a tool to protect the judiciary from corporate influence. Progressives at the time argued that in a true democracy, judges -- and all elected officials -- should be held accountable to the will of the people. Interestingly, over the past century notable recalls have targeted male judges who were viewed as dismissive of the concerns of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Judges2]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, many legal scholars are warning of dangers inherent in politicizing the courts: 46 California law professors have signed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202763810644/46-California-Law-Professors-Letter-Opposes-Persky-Ouster?slreturn=20160716202015\">letter\u003c/a> that, while criticizing Brock Turner’s sentence, warns that a recall poses \"grave collateral damage\" to justice in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Naked political pressure of this kind risks undermining the very foundation of dispassionate, independent judgment upon which all criminal convictions and sentences depend for their legitimacy,\" they wrote. “If disappointed litigants can influence the outcomes of future cases by unseating judges who rule against their interests, the administration of justice quickly falls into the hands of the wealthy, special interest groups, and anyone who wants to launch a political action committee on the heels of media coverage of a controversial case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who joined other law professors in signing the anti-recall letter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/judge-719460-sentence-judges.html\">wrote\u003c/a> that recall efforts mostly target judges seen as rendering lenient sentences. He has represented defendants given a life sentence for stealing $153 of videotapes and 25 years to life for stealing an umbrella and two bottles of liquor worth $49, but can’t remember a recall ever mounted against a judge for imposing \"an outrageously long sentence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another online \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/california-commission-on-judicial-performance-a-letter-in-support-of-judge-aaron-persky-and-judicial-discretion\">petition\u003c/a>, this one started by public defenders in support of Persky, cautions that his removal would \"deter other judges from extending mercy. ... We fear that this shift will disproportionately impact the underprivileged and minorities in our communities and perpetuate mass incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Persky’s sentencing of Turner and the impassioned reaction to it are extraordinary. The Committee to Recall Judge Persky, which aims to raise $1 million for a political action committee, was founded by Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a friend of the victim's family, and is getting help from a co-founder of Electing Women Silicon Valley and experienced social media consultants. The committee and the invitation-only women’s group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1740782152831754/\">Grlcvlt\u003c/a> already have hosted a star-studded benefit in Brooklyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dauber has said that Persky needs to be removed not merely for the sentence he handed down to Turner, but because he \"exhibits a clear pattern of bias against sexual violence and violence against women.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think,” she said, “voters will agree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky faces a recall movement after he sentenced an ex-Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky faces a recall movement after he sentenced an ex-Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/The Recorder)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California, of course, has a body ready-made to respond to the voters: the Legislature. Before wrapping up their 2016 session this month, for example, lawmakers will decide the fate of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888\">bill\u003c/a> designed to establish mandatory prison time for sex crimes against victims incapable of giving consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor is the judicial branch immune to political blowback. One indication may be that Persky just \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_30277943/brock-turner-judge-kicks-himself-off-first-sex\">recused\u003c/a> himself from a case in which he had previously indicated his willingness to reduce a plumber’s felony conviction for child pornography possession down to a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other judges feel a chill as well -- which at least one Santa Clara County public defender suggests is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am really fearful that the recall effort will impact the clients I represent,\" said public defender Sajid Khan. He has not gone before Persky, but says he has already encountered a case in which another county judge offered to remove a strike for a defendant in exchange for a guilty plea -- but rescinded the offer after the Turner case. \"It seemed more than a coincidence,\" he said. “I was left to wonder if his change in course was due to fear of backlash or a subconscious concern about what Judge Persky has to go through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of research on recalls, studies on retention votes -- where judges face a vote to keep their seats -- do show \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/rethinking-judicial-selection-state-courts\">evidence\u003c/a> that judges are more likely to sentence defendants to more prison time and uphold death penalty sentences in election years. One 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/yuchtman/Noam_Yuchtman_files/Berdejo_Yuchtman_April_2012.pd\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at Loyola Law School and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business found that judges in Washington state handed down longer sentences for serious crimes at the end of their election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, might this be harkening a new emphasis on judicial recall and what does this mean for judges who are hearing cases that are controversial?” said Alicia Bannon, a senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and author of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/rethinking-judicial-selection-state-courts\">report\u003c/a> warning of politicized courtrooms. “In the end, judges are often going to make decisions that aren’t popular... The facts are troubling in this particular case, but raise broader questions about the integrity of our court system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And judges do feel the pressure. The late California Supreme Court Justice Otto Kaus once likened deciding controversial cases before elections to “finding a crocodile in your bathtub when you go in to shave in the morning. You know it’s there, and you try not to think about it, but it’s hard to think of much else while you’re shaving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only human,” former Iowa Supreme Court Judge Michael Streit told a forum at Drake University a year after he and two other judges were blocked from retention following a decision to legalize same-sex marriage. But regardless of pressure, he said, judges must consciously avoid making decisions based on politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, says Cathal Conneely, a public information officer for the Judicial Council of California, judges are aware of the balancing act they face every day on every case. “It’s assumed that comes with the judicial temperament,” he said, adding that judges -- who come to the bench with at least 10 years of legal experience -- have “robust” guidance, education, supervision and support when needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"SJo4pZ8HgVpcFIe2ZhULEPQ7BvGsjtkj\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of only \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials.aspx#List_of_States_with_Process\">eight states\u003c/a> to allow voters to remove a judge, and one of even fewer where a judge can be tossed out without having clearly broken the law. The independent California Commission on Judicial Performance investigates complaints of misconduct where judges may have broken the law, which can result in removal or sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 1,535 Superior Court judges appear on the ballot in a nonpartisan election every six years, facing potential ouster only if an opponent challenges them. Only two recall efforts have worked, in 1913 and 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for appointed California Supreme Court justices, there have been 27 attempts to remove those. Former Chief Justice Rose Bird and Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso were rejected in 1986 by voters angered over their resistance to capital punishment. Supreme Court judges face simple retention votes -- where voters are asked to mark yes or no on their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has two things that are relatively unique,” said William Raftery, a senior analyst for the National Center for State Courts. “You have more judges there than just about anywhere in the United States and you do have recall. Just looking broadly in the United States, recall very, very, very rarely happens, whether it’s a governor or a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last recalled judge was County Judge Arnie Simonson, ousted by Wisconsin voters in 1977 -- after he had commented during a juvenile sex assault hearing that “given the way women dress, rape is a normal reaction.” He sentenced a teen convicted of attacking a 15-year-old girl in a school stairway to a year of home supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recalls are rare primarily because they are expensive and time-consuming. Proponents of recalling Judge Persky must wait until April to begin gathering 80,000 signatures of Santa Clara County voters to guarantee the measure will make the ballot. That means keeping the public engaged until an off-year election in November 2017, and raising money for what will be a long campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often recalls simply sputter out. One case in point was an \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/M._Marc_Kelly_recall,_Orange_County_Superior_Court,_California_(2015)\">effort to recall\u003c/a> Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly last year. The judge faced outrage after he sentenced a man convicted of sodomizing a 3-year-old girl to 10 years in prison, the mandatory minimum. Tens of thousands signed a Change.org petition but not enough people added their names to an official petition that would put the recall on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporters of the Persky recall have to work to keep momentum going, they have a responsive public. A Gallup \u003ca href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/183593/confidence-institutions-below-historical-norms.aspx\">Poll\u003c/a> last year found a historically low level of confidence in government, with fewer than a third professing faith in the criminal justice system. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Sextant-Santa-Clara-Judicial-Recall-Tabs-for-CA120.pdf\">survey\u003c/a> found that two-thirds of voters in Santa Clara County support recalling Persky -- and among younger women, that support was by a 4-to-1 margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Judges1]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the backlash is unsurprising, given that the sentence came amid widespread concern about a reported epidemic of sexual assaults on campuses nationwide. Turner was a student at an elite university, a swimmer with Olympic aspirations caught with an unresponsive woman near a dumpster outside a frat party. The woman, who didn’t remember the assault, suffered vaginal injuries from a foreign object. Turner was prosecuted and convicted of three felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge handed down the minimum sentence after considering the “severe impact” of a long sentence, the mitigating factor of alcohol, and the fact that Turner will have to register as a sex offender. Statements from Turner’s father, describing his son’s loss of appetite and how his life had been ruined over “20 minutes of action”—which Dauber tweeted out—further inflamed public reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coverage was ubiquitous: Cosmopolitan, the New Yorker and everything in between. The petition on Change.org calling for impeachment — not related to a recall — is still racking up signatures. The recall effort’s website has posted endorsements and stories about sentences Persky has handed down in other sex assault cases, including one where he sentenced a man to less than a week in jail for possession of child abuse images and another for “weekend jail” after being convicted of felony battery in a domestic violence case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cole, from the University of San Diego, hopes voters understand what’s at stake. The issues—involving mandated minimum sentencing and the need to evaluate each defendant individually—go to the heart of how a judge deliberates and are complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These arguments are too cerebral for Facebook,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was no Facebook in the few cases where voters decided to recall judges. Why did those succeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they shared, according to Stanford history professor Estelle Freedman, was outrage that sparked the attention of women’s groups. The earlier recalls — and the effort building against Persky — occurred amid a backdrop of “perceived lenience toward rape at a time of political mobilization by feminists,” she noted in a New York Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/opinion/when-feminists-take-on-judges-over-rape.html?_r=0\">op-ed\u003c/a> headlined “Why Feminists Take on Judges Over Rape”. And in the case against Judge Simonson in Wisconsin, the National Organization for Women organized meetings and “feminist networks in the area led the response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1913, when San Francisco Police Court Judge Charles Weller reduced bail for a man charged with felony assault of a 16-year old girl, women’s clubs took action, as \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130124.2.78\">reported\u003c/a> at the time by the San Francisco Call. The vice president of the Oceanside Women’s Club, who instigated the recall, said that “no power on earth could prevent the good women of San Francisco from exercising their rights of franchise in so noble a cause,” the paper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oceanside Women’s Club official and her allies went door to door and collected signatures. “The men have failed to force good government,” she told the Call. “The women will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policy and politics. For more stories, go to calmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence suggests that judges tend to hand down stiffer sentences shortly before they have to face the voters in retention elections. And although there is little research on the effects of judicial recalls because there have been so few of them, growing mistrust in the justice system and the rise of social media could change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are less inclined to be deferential to their public institutions than was once the case,\" said Kevin Cole, a professor at University of San Diego School of Law. \"And it’s easier for criticism to spread. Now all you need is an internet connection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California voters initially gave themselves the ability to oust judges by recall in 1911, it was seen as a tool to protect the judiciary from corporate influence. Progressives at the time argued that in a true democracy, judges -- and all elected officials -- should be held accountable to the will of the people. Interestingly, over the past century notable recalls have targeted male judges who were viewed as dismissive of the concerns of women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Judges2]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, many legal scholars are warning of dangers inherent in politicizing the courts: 46 California law professors have signed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202763810644/46-California-Law-Professors-Letter-Opposes-Persky-Ouster?slreturn=20160716202015\">letter\u003c/a> that, while criticizing Brock Turner’s sentence, warns that a recall poses \"grave collateral damage\" to justice in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Naked political pressure of this kind risks undermining the very foundation of dispassionate, independent judgment upon which all criminal convictions and sentences depend for their legitimacy,\" they wrote. “If disappointed litigants can influence the outcomes of future cases by unseating judges who rule against their interests, the administration of justice quickly falls into the hands of the wealthy, special interest groups, and anyone who wants to launch a political action committee on the heels of media coverage of a controversial case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who joined other law professors in signing the anti-recall letter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/judge-719460-sentence-judges.html\">wrote\u003c/a> that recall efforts mostly target judges seen as rendering lenient sentences. He has represented defendants given a life sentence for stealing $153 of videotapes and 25 years to life for stealing an umbrella and two bottles of liquor worth $49, but can’t remember a recall ever mounted against a judge for imposing \"an outrageously long sentence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another online \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/california-commission-on-judicial-performance-a-letter-in-support-of-judge-aaron-persky-and-judicial-discretion\">petition\u003c/a>, this one started by public defenders in support of Persky, cautions that his removal would \"deter other judges from extending mercy. ... We fear that this shift will disproportionately impact the underprivileged and minorities in our communities and perpetuate mass incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Persky’s sentencing of Turner and the impassioned reaction to it are extraordinary. The Committee to Recall Judge Persky, which aims to raise $1 million for a political action committee, was founded by Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a friend of the victim's family, and is getting help from a co-founder of Electing Women Silicon Valley and experienced social media consultants. The committee and the invitation-only women’s group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/1740782152831754/\">Grlcvlt\u003c/a> already have hosted a star-studded benefit in Brooklyn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dauber has said that Persky needs to be removed not merely for the sentence he handed down to Turner, but because he \"exhibits a clear pattern of bias against sexual violence and violence against women.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think,” she said, “voters will agree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059993\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059993\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky faces a recall movement after he sentenced an ex-Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-800x545.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-1180x804.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Persky-960x655.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky faces a recall movement after he sentenced an ex-Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. \u003ccite>(Jason Doiy/The Recorder)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California, of course, has a body ready-made to respond to the voters: the Legislature. Before wrapping up their 2016 session this month, for example, lawmakers will decide the fate of a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2888\">bill\u003c/a> designed to establish mandatory prison time for sex crimes against victims incapable of giving consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor is the judicial branch immune to political blowback. One indication may be that Persky just \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_30277943/brock-turner-judge-kicks-himself-off-first-sex\">recused\u003c/a> himself from a case in which he had previously indicated his willingness to reduce a plumber’s felony conviction for child pornography possession down to a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other judges feel a chill as well -- which at least one Santa Clara County public defender suggests is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am really fearful that the recall effort will impact the clients I represent,\" said public defender Sajid Khan. He has not gone before Persky, but says he has already encountered a case in which another county judge offered to remove a strike for a defendant in exchange for a guilty plea -- but rescinded the offer after the Turner case. \"It seemed more than a coincidence,\" he said. “I was left to wonder if his change in course was due to fear of backlash or a subconscious concern about what Judge Persky has to go through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the absence of research on recalls, studies on retention votes -- where judges face a vote to keep their seats -- do show \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/rethinking-judicial-selection-state-courts\">evidence\u003c/a> that judges are more likely to sentence defendants to more prison time and uphold death penalty sentences in election years. One 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/yuchtman/Noam_Yuchtman_files/Berdejo_Yuchtman_April_2012.pd\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at Loyola Law School and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business found that judges in Washington state handed down longer sentences for serious crimes at the end of their election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, might this be harkening a new emphasis on judicial recall and what does this mean for judges who are hearing cases that are controversial?” said Alicia Bannon, a senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and author of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/rethinking-judicial-selection-state-courts\">report\u003c/a> warning of politicized courtrooms. “In the end, judges are often going to make decisions that aren’t popular... The facts are troubling in this particular case, but raise broader questions about the integrity of our court system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And judges do feel the pressure. The late California Supreme Court Justice Otto Kaus once likened deciding controversial cases before elections to “finding a crocodile in your bathtub when you go in to shave in the morning. You know it’s there, and you try not to think about it, but it’s hard to think of much else while you’re shaving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re only human,” former Iowa Supreme Court Judge Michael Streit told a forum at Drake University a year after he and two other judges were blocked from retention following a decision to legalize same-sex marriage. But regardless of pressure, he said, judges must consciously avoid making decisions based on politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, says Cathal Conneely, a public information officer for the Judicial Council of California, judges are aware of the balancing act they face every day on every case. “It’s assumed that comes with the judicial temperament,” he said, adding that judges -- who come to the bench with at least 10 years of legal experience -- have “robust” guidance, education, supervision and support when needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of only \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials.aspx#List_of_States_with_Process\">eight states\u003c/a> to allow voters to remove a judge, and one of even fewer where a judge can be tossed out without having clearly broken the law. The independent California Commission on Judicial Performance investigates complaints of misconduct where judges may have broken the law, which can result in removal or sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s 1,535 Superior Court judges appear on the ballot in a nonpartisan election every six years, facing potential ouster only if an opponent challenges them. Only two recall efforts have worked, in 1913 and 1932.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for appointed California Supreme Court justices, there have been 27 attempts to remove those. Former Chief Justice Rose Bird and Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso were rejected in 1986 by voters angered over their resistance to capital punishment. Supreme Court judges face simple retention votes -- where voters are asked to mark yes or no on their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California has two things that are relatively unique,” said William Raftery, a senior analyst for the National Center for State Courts. “You have more judges there than just about anywhere in the United States and you do have recall. Just looking broadly in the United States, recall very, very, very rarely happens, whether it’s a governor or a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last recalled judge was County Judge Arnie Simonson, ousted by Wisconsin voters in 1977 -- after he had commented during a juvenile sex assault hearing that “given the way women dress, rape is a normal reaction.” He sentenced a teen convicted of attacking a 15-year-old girl in a school stairway to a year of home supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recalls are rare primarily because they are expensive and time-consuming. Proponents of recalling Judge Persky must wait until April to begin gathering 80,000 signatures of Santa Clara County voters to guarantee the measure will make the ballot. That means keeping the public engaged until an off-year election in November 2017, and raising money for what will be a long campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Often recalls simply sputter out. One case in point was an \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/M._Marc_Kelly_recall,_Orange_County_Superior_Court,_California_(2015)\">effort to recall\u003c/a> Orange County Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly last year. The judge faced outrage after he sentenced a man convicted of sodomizing a 3-year-old girl to 10 years in prison, the mandatory minimum. Tens of thousands signed a Change.org petition but not enough people added their names to an official petition that would put the recall on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While supporters of the Persky recall have to work to keep momentum going, they have a responsive public. A Gallup \u003ca href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/183593/confidence-institutions-below-historical-norms.aspx\">Poll\u003c/a> last year found a historically low level of confidence in government, with fewer than a third professing faith in the criminal justice system. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://politicaldata.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Sextant-Santa-Clara-Judicial-Recall-Tabs-for-CA120.pdf\">survey\u003c/a> found that two-thirds of voters in Santa Clara County support recalling Persky -- and among younger women, that support was by a 4-to-1 margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Judges1]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the backlash is unsurprising, given that the sentence came amid widespread concern about a reported epidemic of sexual assaults on campuses nationwide. Turner was a student at an elite university, a swimmer with Olympic aspirations caught with an unresponsive woman near a dumpster outside a frat party. The woman, who didn’t remember the assault, suffered vaginal injuries from a foreign object. Turner was prosecuted and convicted of three felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge handed down the minimum sentence after considering the “severe impact” of a long sentence, the mitigating factor of alcohol, and the fact that Turner will have to register as a sex offender. Statements from Turner’s father, describing his son’s loss of appetite and how his life had been ruined over “20 minutes of action”—which Dauber tweeted out—further inflamed public reaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coverage was ubiquitous: Cosmopolitan, the New Yorker and everything in between. The petition on Change.org calling for impeachment — not related to a recall — is still racking up signatures. The recall effort’s website has posted endorsements and stories about sentences Persky has handed down in other sex assault cases, including one where he sentenced a man to less than a week in jail for possession of child abuse images and another for “weekend jail” after being convicted of felony battery in a domestic violence case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cole, from the University of San Diego, hopes voters understand what’s at stake. The issues—involving mandated minimum sentencing and the need to evaluate each defendant individually—go to the heart of how a judge deliberates and are complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These arguments are too cerebral for Facebook,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was no Facebook in the few cases where voters decided to recall judges. Why did those succeed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they shared, according to Stanford history professor Estelle Freedman, was outrage that sparked the attention of women’s groups. The earlier recalls — and the effort building against Persky — occurred amid a backdrop of “perceived lenience toward rape at a time of political mobilization by feminists,” she noted in a New York Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/opinion/when-feminists-take-on-judges-over-rape.html?_r=0\">op-ed\u003c/a> headlined “Why Feminists Take on Judges Over Rape”. And in the case against Judge Simonson in Wisconsin, the National Organization for Women organized meetings and “feminist networks in the area led the response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1913, when San Francisco Police Court Judge Charles Weller reduced bail for a man charged with felony assault of a 16-year old girl, women’s clubs took action, as \u003ca href=\"http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130124.2.78\">reported\u003c/a> at the time by the San Francisco Call. The vice president of the Oceanside Women’s Club, who instigated the recall, said that “no power on earth could prevent the good women of San Francisco from exercising their rights of franchise in so noble a cause,” the paper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oceanside Women’s Club official and her allies went door to door and collected signatures. “The men have failed to force good government,” she told the Call. “The women will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policy and politics. For more stories, go to calmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County prosecutors have taken what they call \"a rare and carefully considered step\" to block the judge at the center of the Brock Turner sexual assault case from participating in a new case involving alleged sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen used a prosecutor's peremptory challenge to keep Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky from presiding over the new case. Rosen's move was related to Persky's decision to dismiss a theft case on Monday and is also the latest chapter in the intensifying fallout from the Turner case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, Persky sentenced Turner, 20, a former Stanford swimmer, to six months in county jail and three years probation for sexually assaulting a young woman passed out after drinking heavily at a fraternity party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner had faced a maximum of 14 years in state prison for his three felony convictions, and prosecutors had sought a sentence of six years. In following \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/12/us/document-SentencingPacket.html\" target=\"_blank\">a probation officer's recommendation\u003c/a> for leniency, Persky expressed concern about the impact a longer sentence would have on Turner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"sagktDYsRcudKASWWAQ3FPjTleaBnujI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A firestorm followed: First, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.dow7ZWjzK#.pq5BrqK8n\" target=\"_blank\">publication of the victim's statement\u003c/a>, which questioned whether Turner had really taken responsibility for his acts. Next, \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/california-state-house-recall-judge-aaron-persky\" target=\"_blank\">an online petition\u003c/a> to remove Persky from the bench, which, though it has no legal force, has gotten more than 1.2 million signatures to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, one of the jurors in the Turner case released a letter to the judge saying he was \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/14/juror-in-stanford-sex-assault-case-absolutely-shocked-and-appalled-by-sentence\" target=\"_blank\">shocked and appalled\u003c/a>\" by the sentence. Sunday on the Stanford campus, some graduating students \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-stanford-protest-20160612-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">participated in a protest\u003c/a> against Persky and the sentence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, at least 10 prospective jurors \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_29997198/judge-aaron-persky-prospective-jurors-refuse-serve\" target=\"_blank\">refused to serve\u003c/a> in an unrelated misdemeanor theft case Persky was hearing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it was that theft case that led to District Attorney Rosen's unusual move Tuesday to stop Persky from presiding over a preliminary hearing involving a male San Jose nurse who faces charges he sexually assaulted a patient while she was sedated. The hearing would determine whether prosecutors have presented enough evidence to bring the suspect to trial. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney exercised his challenge the day after Persky tossed out a misdemeanor theft trial before it reached the jury. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are disappointed and puzzled at Judge Persky's unusual decision to unilaterally dismiss a case before the jury could deliberate,\" the district attorney said in a prepared statement. \"After this and the recent turn of events, we lack confidence that Judge Persky can fairly participate in this upcoming hearing in which a male nurse sexually assaulted an anesthetized female patient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said he hasn't decided whether he will disqualify Persky from all new sexual assault cases that may get assigned to him in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the future, we will evaluate each case on its own merits,\" Rosen said, \"and decide if we should use our legal right to ask for another judge in order to protect public safety and pursue justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Persky nor other Superior Court officials commented publicly on Rosen's move. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Prosecutors had sought a sentence of six years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>The Victim's Response\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The statement that Brock Turner's victim read in court last Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.mtVlb92jw#.gmgroaGqA\" target=\"_blank\">via BuzzFeed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The sentence has sparked a campaign for the recall of Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need judges who understand violence against women. Judge Persky does not. He should be replaced. Hopefully a qualified woman will replace him,\" said Stanford law professor Michele Dauber in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Dauber was responsible for tweeting portions of the probation pre-sentence report containing a statement attributed to Brock's father, Dan Turner, who pleaded for leniency, saying the verdict had \"broken and shattered\" his son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. The fact that he now has to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life forever alters where he can live, visit, work, and how he will be able to interact with people and organizations.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10981232\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ap_16158770388568_sq-e8a756dfded3119e22c982b90bff13827fbac280-e1465309726653.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10981232\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/ap_16158770388568_sq-e8a756dfded3119e22c982b90bff13827fbac280-e1465309726653.jpg\" alt=\"A booking photo shows Brock Turner, whose sentence of six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has caused outrage.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A booking photo shows Brock Turner, whose sentence of six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has caused outrage. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Brock Turner's victim read a 12-page, single-spaced \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/da/newsroom/newsreleases/Documents/B-Turner%20VIS.pdf\">statement\u003c/a> in court directed at her assailant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I want to show people that one night of drinking can ruin two lives. You and me. You are the cause, I am the effect. ... My damage was internal, unseen, I carry it with me. You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In her statement, the victim, whose name has not been made public by NPR and other news organizations, anticipated that Turner would receive a light sentence because he was a star athlete at a prestigious university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"If I had been sexually assaulted by an un-athletic guy from a community college, what would his sentence be? 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