SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — A group of women’s advocates and assault survivors gave a judicial agency in San Francisco 200,000 more signatures Wednesday calling for the ouster of a judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexual assault.
The new signatures add to more than a million previously submitted to the state Commission on Judicial Performance on June 10, together with a formal complaint seeking an investigation of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
The commission investigates judicial misconduct and has the power to impose punishments ranging from censure to removal from office. [Read Full Article]