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Pitts: Lousy judge is gone, but indifference to rape remains
By Leonard Pitts
Published: June 11, 2018, 6:01am
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There will be few tears for Aaron Persky.
California voters gave the Superior Court judge his walking papers last week. Persky, the state’s first judge to be recalled since 1932, became a target of national fury two years ago when he sentenced Brock Turner, a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting a young woman after she got drunk at a party.
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