The California judge who got ousted from the bench in a recall after he handed out a light sentence to a Stanford University student convicted of sexual assault is now out of yet another job, that of high school girls tennis coach.
Former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was hired at the start of the school year to coach girls junior varsity tennis at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, Calif., according to the San Francisco Chronicle. But after word got out, and complaints came in, about who the new tennis coach was, the district let him go. Full Article
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I’ve been seeing this for a few days now and vast majority of comments are just pure ignorance mixed with certainty in their judgment. No one seems to get that he followed the pre-sentencing report recommendation, and that being registered is a far great punishment than pretty much any amount of time they want to see Brock do. They also don’t realize how this kind of mob mentality will come back to bite them in the future should they or their loved one is in front of a judge who might be considering their own future in regards to how they rule in the case before them.
Ignorance and vengeance are destructive forces. We live in a society that is manipulated by media and government propaganda. The torch and pitchfork mentality of our country is appalling. I wish I had a time machine to travel into the future to see were this is going. I fear it will not end well. I envision a science fiction movie come to life.
“The district decided to sever ties with Persky, per the Times, “after criticism and an online petition spurred by students, parents and alumni from Lynbrook High School.”
Those students, parents, and alumni will be next ones on the registry as 80% of new sex crimes are by them.
This man is suffering and losing his livelihood and life and he never did a thing wrong. He mearly made a decision the public didn’t agree with.
Do any of you really think a politician will do the same? Hell no they won’t. They will all learn from this, as will other judges and prosecutors. More will be put on life ending registries.In fact there are more registries in the making. I personally know of 3 people , one married and two single that have ended their lives in the past 2 yrs. Not that they had much of a life left.
The fate of this judge will be the fate of those that stand with us or show empathy toward us. Oh, people might say they see the person and not the offense, but those people will soon disappear rather than suffer with us. For those that keep repeating “the registry must and will be taken down”, take a look at all the other countries adding one. The Registry is here to stay. The banishment and life ending results due to it are only going to get worse.
My only solace in this entire sh!t show is that many, if not most, of these young women running the streets with their torches and pitchforks will, at some point, have children of their own. Half of whom will be male. What? My son? NEVER!
….said every mother of every registrant. Sow the wind, reap the storm. Wouldn’t be the first time.
Here is an interesting exchange (if one can call a Twitter convo that). Between Stanford Law Professor ML Dauber (personal friend of Emily Doe / Chanel Miller and reported author of Emily Doe’s victim impact statement that went viral) and Guy Hamilton-Smith (attorney (law school graduate?) and speaker at the 2019 ACSOL Conference who dares to analyze).
https://twitter.com/mldauber/status/1172670503997210624
ps. I guess Prof. Dauber (where do they find these people (at Stanford, no less)) runs no risk of her off-spring ending up like this.
This is why a system that has elected judges is not an impartial, unbiased justice system.
The very moment the Rehnquist Court upheld the Wetterling Act was the same moment judicial authority & sovereignty was diminished irrevocablely! The judicial role of congressional oversight via interpretation is integral to system trust and stability.
The abandonment of judicial determination in crime sentencing as wholly judicial role has come back to bite the judicial system itself in the ass.
Persky lost credibility despite his adherence to the law and suffered recall. He is not a the only judge to have suffered that fate. There have been others, and there will be more overrun by vindictiveness by victims advocates.
To get fair judicial, it look like that the judge will have to set behind a curtain or a one way window and his/her name will never be revealed.
And this is why the Founding Fathers specifically ruled out this idea of democracy. Everyday people are too stupid and too prone to making emotional decisions. But California and a lot of the US is leaning towards this democracy notion. The fall of this great nation is now heralded.
They are treating him like he is a sex offender himself. What is next? Are they going to start putting judges who didn’t rule harshly enough on the registry too?
Has anything happened to the others who presented the sentence recommendation, etc to him on the bench? Are they shaking from this? Just because he signed off on the final sentence, is he the fall guy for them all?
There’s a ring of legal common sense here that’s come through my feed that may be worth it’s own post here? People sticking up for the good Judge!
Firing Judge Persky as a tennis coach was a big mistake
https://paloaltoonline.com/blogs/p/2019/09/17/firing-judge-persky-as-a-tennis-coach-was-a-big-mistake
Hello, there’s more officials out there that are committing crimes and getting a slap on the hand and they reduce there charges plus they keep it out of the media, well i have two pdf files with hundreds of judges, law enforcement, senators, ect like : Ex-cop takes plea deal for sex with prostitutes while on duty and gets 6 months, this is the kind of info we should be getting out to the public.
@Mike.
I agree. No former cop, judge, prosecutor, and politician should get special treatment than the rest of the Registrants.