What keeps a judge from making whatever decision they want when dealing with criminal court cases?
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Everyone’s talking about going overboard with sentencing, but let’s talk about judges like Aaron Persky. He gave Brock Turner 6 months for rape, and Turner was released in 3.
One of the results of the Turner wrist slap was the signing of AB2888, but even with that, penal code 1203.965 section b still leaves it up to a judges discretion whether he has to care about AB2888.
I still can’t wrap my head around those events years later. Except the part where Persky also went to Stanford, nothing else made sense.
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