1 million sign petitions to boot Stanford sex-assault judge
Activists angered by the six-month sentence handed down by a South Bay judge in the Stanford sexual assault case intend to submit petitions Friday signed by 1 million people calling for his removal.
Advocates said they hope the petitions will lead to impeachment proceedings in the state Legislature against Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
The judge handed down the county-jail sentence last week to Brock Allen Turner, the 20-year-old former Stanford student convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault in the January 2015 attack on an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party.
The group will hand-deliver signatures from all the online petitions — in a thumb drive — on Friday to the state Commission on Judicial Performance in San Francisco.
UltraViolet will also file a formal complaint about Persky with the commission, alleging he was biased and made inappropriate comments on the bench.
The move comes a week after the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office released the woman’s victim-impact statement, in which she described in excruciating detail what happened the night she was sexually assaulted and the aftermath she’s faced.