Stanford Judge Reignites Debate After Leaving Other Sex Case

Santa Clara County deputy public defender Gary Goodman in June called him a "solid and respected judge," while defense attorney Barbara Muller said he's "one of the fairest judges" in the county. University of California, Berkeley, law professor Christopher Kutz said "no formal or actual conflict" appears to exist between Persky and the child porn case, but the "appearance that he seems susceptible to political pressure" does. "Case after case, Judge Persky has demonstrated that his own personal bias compels him to prioritize the well-being of privileged men — rapists, abusers and possessors of child porn — over the survivors of their crimes," said Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of women's advocacy group UltraViolet, which has asked the Commission on Judicial Performance to remove Persky. A jury convicted the former Olympic hopeful of sexually assaulting a young woman he met at a campus fraternity party in January 2015 after she passed out behind a trash bin. Stanford unveiled a revised student alcohol policy on Monday, banning hard alcohol from undergraduate parties and shots from graduate gatherings in an effort to combat binge drinking.

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