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Anger at Judge who sentenced Brock Turner for another case
Judge who sentenced Brock Turner is under fire again after giving a 'lenient' penalty to college athlete who attacked his girlfriend
- Judge Aaron Persky came under fire for his sentence in Brock Turner case
- Now it has emerged he gave another college athlete a 'lenient punishment'
- Keenan Smith admitted attacking his girlfriend and punching a bystander
- But Judge Persky agreed to a plea deal which provoked fury from some
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The under-fire judge who sentenced Brock Turner is at the center of another controversy after he was accused of giving a 'lenient' punishment to a college athlete who attacked his girlfriend.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was criticized earlier this year after handing down the Stanford rapist a six month prison sentence despite the fact he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman behind a dumpster.
Now it has emerged that the same judge also agreed to a plea deal last year in the case of San Mateo College football player Keenan Smith who admitted attacking his girlfriend and punching a bystander who tried to protect her.
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Under-fire judge Aaron Persky who sentenced Brock Truner is at the center of another controversy after he was accused of giving a 'lenient' punishment to a college athlete who attacked his girlfriend
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Kennan Smith, seen right arriving at court on Tuesday, admitted attacking his girlfriend and punching a bystander who tried to protect her
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The deal saw the running back's charges reduced to misdemeanors and he was ordered to complete a 52-week domestic violence program and put in 28 days on the jail’s weekend work crew.
However, the 20-year-old had failed to adhere to the terms of his plea bargain and was brought back to court yesterday in an unusual step after Stanford law professor Michele Dauber alerted the District Attorney's office to the case.
It comes after Dauber had been trying to recall Judge Persky for his role in the Brock Turner case and what she believes is his preferential treatment to sportsmen and disregard for violence against women.
At the hearing yesterday, Smith was ordered to spend eight weekends in jail after being sentenced by a different judge.
And Dauber believes the new stiffer sentence handed out today shows how Persky's original sentence was too lenient.
She told the Mercury News: 'Today's hearing was just more evidence that Judge Persky sent the message that playing football was more important than violence against women.'
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz4NZ1MUh2L
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