“Santa Clara County residents deserve a judge who will protect victims, not rapists,” Dauber said at a news conference Monday. Critics slammed the sentence for being too lenient, and a effort to recall Persky from the bench was launched. All of these steps must be completed before March 9 to be combined with the June 5, 2018, countywide election, Torres said. “There are so many different steps.”According to Dauber, the Stanford professor, the group is planning to collect 90,000 signatures in Santa Clara County. “We must do all we can to recall Judge Persky and instead elect a judge that understands sexual assault and violence against women and takes it seriously.”

Source: Los Angeles Times June 27, 2017 00:50 UTC