The California judge facing a recall vote due to the unpopular sentence he imposed on a former Stanford University swimmer has launched his own campaign to stay in office. With his career on the line over his handling of Brock Turner’s sexual case, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky recently unveiled an anti-recall website and started fundraising. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not to appease politicians or ideologues,” a statement from Persky on his RetainJudgePersky.com site said. Persky’s decision in June to sentence Turner, now 22, to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman provoked the recall campaign. Prosecutors had requested a six-year prison sentence for the ex-swimmer, but Persky disagreed, saying prison could have a “severe impact” on Turner.

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2016 01:25 UTC