On Friday, Brock Turner, the Stanford swimmer who was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious classmate when he was 20 years old, is scheduled to be released from jail. Ever since Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced him, Turner was likely to spend three months in jail on the assumption of good behaviour. Nor is it unusual, according to the Associated Press — Santa Clara County jail inmates serve half of their sentence if they maintain a clean disciplinary record. At the time, the sentence requiring Turner to register as a sex offender and spend six months in jail caused outrage and led to heated national debate. On Thursday, the Santa Clara Superior Court released a statement that announced Judge Persky’s voluntary reassignment to the civil division.

Source: National Post August 30, 2016 11:03 UTC