Voters remove judge who gave Brock Turner a 6-month sexual assault sentence

California voters removed Aaron Persky, the judge who gave Brock Turner a six-month sexual assault sentence in the Stanford University rape case that made headlines in 2016.

Turner, a Stanford swimmer, was accused of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman while at school. A jury convicted him on all three charges — sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconscious person and intent to commit rape — and Persky sentenced Turner to six months in jail with three years probation. The maximum jail sentence for sexual assault in the state of California is 14 years.

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