Fun facts: Palo Alto judge Aaron Persky, who recently handed down a light sentence on the ex-Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assaulting a woman on the Stamford campus in 2015, was himself a captain of the Stanford Lacrosse team.
Aaron Persky, the judge in question, is up for reelection today in the California Primary — kind of bad timing for him. There’s also a petition making the rounds to recall the judge, and it has 300,000 signatures so far.
Brock Turner, 20, was sentenced to six months in jail for the assault on a 23-year-old woman after a frat party — he was apprehended by two witnesses and held by police.