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June 28, 2016

Judge in Brock Turner Case Oversees Harsher Sentence for Latino in Similar Assault
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The case has drawn comparisons to Brock Allen Turner, the former
Stanford University swimmer sentenced to six months in jail after
witnesses caught him in the act of raping an unconscious woman. Judge
Aaron Persky expressed concerns a prison term would have a "severe
impact" on Turner. But Judge Persky is also presiding over a similar
case in which a Latino man is due to be sentenced to a much harsher term
than Brock Allen Turner for a similar crime. The Guardian reports Raul
Ramirez, a Salvadoran immigrant who admitted to sexually assaulting his
roommate, and later apologized, faces three years in state prison under
a deal overseen by Judge Persky. Stanford professor Michele Landis
Dauber, who is overseeing an attempt to recall Persky, says the case
vindicates concerns over the judge's bias.


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