PhotoFallout continues over the controversial Stanford sexual assault case. That objection automatically prevented him from presiding over a preliminary hearing in the sexual assault case. ■ On Monday, The Palo Alto Weekly published a scathing anonymous letter from a juror in the Stanford case who said he was “absolutely shocked and appalled” by the sentence. Prosecutors filed a peremptory challenge to Judge Persky after he dismissed charges against a woman in an unrelated misdemeanor theft trial on Monday. “I can’t believe what you did,” one juror said to the judge, referring to his sentence for Mr. Turner.

Source: New York Times June 15, 2016 16:49 UTC