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In the latest Around Town column, former Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky found a new job, only to get fired this week; Palo Alto’s “Blue Trees” project has no end date in sight and two Midpeninsula cities are getting international attention at a photo festival in France.
COURT DECISION … Former Santa Clara County Superior Court judge Aaron Persky, who was recalled last summer after widespread outrage at his 2016 sentencing in the Brock Turner sexual assault case, got a new job — but it didn’t last long. After media reports publicized that he was hired to coach the junior varsity girls tennis team at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, the school district swiftly fired him. On Tuesday, the district said that Persky met all of the district’s hiring requirements and “was a qualified applicant for this position, having attended several tennis coaching clinics for youth, and holds a high rating from the United States Tennis Association.” By Wednesday, facing backlash and an online petition calling for his removal, the district announced that his employment had ended “in the best interest of our students and school community.” Persky told the Mercury News that Superintendent Polly Bove “was motivated by a desire to protect the players from the potentially intrusive media attention related to my hiring.” The former judge’s ousting was spurred by Persky’s decision to sentence Turner to six months in county jail after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious and intoxicated young woman outside a Stanford University frat party. Last week, that young woman publicly identified herself as Chanel Miller, a Palo Alto native, in advance of a forthcoming memoir she wrote about the assault, trial and aftermath.
KIND OF BLUE … In May 2018, Palo Alto invited local residents to help create a public art installation called “ The Blue Trees.” Prominently displayed at King Plaza in front of City Hall, the art consists of eight existing magnolia trees, each painted cobalt blue. At the time, the colorant was expected to stay on the tree trunks and branches for between nine months to a year before fading. But since then, 16 months has passed and the blue remains bright and distinct. Councilwoman Alison Cormack brought up “The Blue Trees,” a brainchild of the artist Konstantin Dimopoulos, during the Sept. 9 meeting between the council and the city’s Public Art Commission. Cormack wondered why the blue hasn’t dissolved by now. “I love the blue trees — my favorite color. But as I recall they were supposed to sort of dissolve. Is it taking longer than expected? I’m not unhappy, just curious. … Are they going to be there for a while?” she asked. Elise DeMarzo, director of the city’s public art program, suggested the public’s enthusiasm is to blame for the persistence of blue. “We had so many community volunteers who came out to help out with ‘The Blue Trees’ that layering was much thicker than it would normally be applied.” She noted that the coloring is starting to pigment and that she expects the upcoming rain season will help the art exhibit make its exit.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES … A slice of local life is on display for the world at the Visa Pour L’Image , an international festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France . San Francisco-based photographer Laura Morton‘s “ University Avenue” shows the stark differences between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. “On one side Palo Alto has the massive fortunes created by Silicon Valley’s technology industry, while in East Palo Alto, mostly on the other side of Highway 101, the community has been squeezed out, away from these fortunes,” Morton wrote on the festival website. “One street, University Avenue, runs through the heart of both communities.” Morton produced the project through an over $8,000 grant than came with her 2018 Canon Female Photojournalist Award. The festival started on Aug. 31 and wraps up this weekend. “This is a documentary record of residents of both communities who are, in their own way, working and going about their daily lives while living in the shadow of the technology giants,” Morton wrote in a description for the project.
I feel for Judge Pesky. He followed the law and the recommendations and ended up losing his job and his pension. He now tries to find another job in a field he is qualified for and he is forced out of it.
Liberal attitudes are unforgiving and unrealistic. I am not sure what the man is expected to do next. He is not a criminal, does not have a criminal record, is trying to hold down a job which he appeared to be doing very well. He is being treated more like a sex offender than a professional doing what always a difficult job, interpreting the law. Public lynchings obviously still occur.
LaDoris Cordell has it right when I saw her being interviewed on the subject.
What a bringdown…going from a Superior Court judge to a JV high school tennis
coach.
Couldn’t Persky simply become a private attorney? Being a former judge, he probably went to law school & passed the bar.
Probably better for him to leave the SF bay area & strike up new roots elsewhere.
“He is not a criminal, does not have a criminal record, is trying to hold down a job which he appeared to be doing very well. He is being treated more like a sex offender than a professional doing what always a difficult job, interpreting the law. Public lynchings obviously still occur.”
Judge Persky’s sentence was fully within the law and he was within his rights to exercise judicial discretion in the sentence he handed down.
I believe in the rule of law, not the rule of lynch mob.
I hope Chanel Miller enjoys the profits from her memoir.
Did Dauber arrange for Persky’s firing? I have heard rumors she is ensuring Brock Turner doea not fet into any school and can not have a life.
Can someone in the media please tell the story of Dauber and Leah Francis and Dauber and her daughter?
I have researched and detailed how Dauber used a carefully planned and executed misinfornation campaign to portray Turner, and by extension, as far worse than ge was.
1. No proof Miller did not consent.
2. All Miller’s claims of violence and sadism were lies. The EMT report said she had no injuries, but Miller said she was covered in blood. The forensic exam showed nothing in her vagina, Miller (and Dauber) said Turner shoved pine needles into her. Huge lies, but because Miller gas become a saint, no one will challwnge them
@Resident: I completely agree.
Mr. Persky also applied for and was eminently qualified for a lacrosse coaching position at Gunn, but they demurred over concerns related to a potential Dauber organized protest.
Mrs. Dauber should share her story and speak about how her personal circumstances have motivated her response (and continued response) to this situation. She has a powerful story to share.
No winners in any of this. There is only sadness and loss for Miller, Turner, Persky, Dauber, Stanford, and our community.
What’s with all the liberal bashing in the repetitive comments above? Since when is tough on crime considered liberal?
Persky will never hold another job in California. He will have to go to a Trump red state to get hired. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy who totally disgraced his position as judge.
I am really sad for Dauber especially, as she has let vindictiveness overwhelm her actions, not just in this situation, when she could be doing good with her considerable energy, intelligence, and social capital. She could have reformed judicial response in sexual assault cases, especially after the recall win, instead it became about revenge against certain people.
I voted for the recall and have defended Dauber on many occasions, but feel it’s wrong to prevent someone from rebuilding a life, even those who have done wrong. Dauber’s wrath takes a pretty black and white view of others, either they agree with her in all ways (good people) or don’t (bad people). And she doesn’t seem to have any room for compassion, forgiveness, and change with the latter. She really doesn’t seem to have any room for seeing that she may not be infallible or always right.
I wish I could buy her a WWJD bracelet…
If this was a liberal judge sentencing a black guy to 3 months in jail for attempted rate, these same idiots defending Persky would be be excoriating the judge for being weak on crime.
The ongoing vitriol bombarding the former judge is an absolute disgrace. Loses his seat on the bench by simply following the rule of law, precedent, and probation report that was submitted in the Brock Turner case. A sentencing track that stemmed from liberal California voters who overwhelmingly supported decriminalizing certain offenses, lowered what offenses could be considered a “violent crime”, and significantly reduced the sentencing and incarceration windows for convicted offenders. The same voting constituency I have to believe that led the recall on the judge to begin with. That’s what you voted for, that’s what you get. You don’t get to cherry pick. When sentencing judges follow the rule of law based on the overall facts and parameters allowed. Again, predictable outcomes but only an issue if affects those in your circle. A shameful hypocrisy.
Maurucio–you are a nasty hateful individual. I can understand why your comment has not been removed – – bill Johnson is one of Michelle dauber sycophants. BTW, dauber drove her daughter to suicide – the victim in the turner case is a surrogate for the daughter
Bill- you will remove any and all comments in support of Persky. Remember I am Michelle dauber and I own you. Don’t force me start a recall of you.
Persky was an elected official who mishandled a sexual assault case so egregiously that voters decided to toss him out. He was the first judge in something like 90 years to be recalled. Everyone can pretend that he didn’t screw up the Turner case. A landslide majority of your neighbors disagreed with you, though.
Should he be a JV girls’ tennis coach? Not if the girls in that high school are uncomfortable with it, which apparently they are. At least he’ll get to go back to his mansion in Los Altos Hills. Forgive me if I spend my sympathy on the people who have to live in their cars to work in Palo Alto, not a guy who did his job so badly that voters had to get rid of him.
I was a strong supporter of the recall, we won, so enough already!
He has paid a huge price for his deeds, and I say, enough.
Let him live in peace, he isn’t harming anyone now, unless he does do anything that makes us think otherwise.
The media is relentless and anything salacious gets them all fired up. Time to stop it.
Get a grip you establishment shills … the public had the right and responsibility
to do what we did to Persky.
If this was something about the election these same people would be all over
with “sore losers” and other complaints.
It is a rare moment when the public gets riled enough to actually do something,
and in this case the right thing, so just let it go, and let Perksy worry about the
his own life, as well as the rich entitle Brock Turner who keeps thinking this is
going to get overturned.
In recent years we are really getting a glimpse of how corrupt our country has
gotten, and until things start to get recognized and fixed there are going to be
uneven reactions to things like this.
How do you who complain about Persksy feel about Al Franken having all the
Democrats line up and demand that he resign … and who now say they were
too harsh on him?
Persky is trained as a lawyer and is at least a decade from retirement. He could go practice law, but apparently that would entail too much work for him.
A fine example of mob-rule. All because he followed the law.
BTW: Any of that book money going to womans assault organizations? Not yet.
I think we should paint the City Council blue. Now that would be a Kodak moment!
I am thankful that he got fired from lynbrook. For those of you feeling a wave of sympathy for him, I remind you to think about the assault on an unconscious girl and imagine if that was your daughter, friend, sister. Think that the perpetrator of the assault got away so lightly because a white judge protects a white privileged kid.
Think how that girl felt and then try being sympathetic to a person who had the power to do something different, protect the victim’s rights but chose not to do so. That was a life altering moment for this victim, one that she will move forward from but one that she will NEVER FORGET.
They spent $20,000.00 to paint those trees BLUE, now the paint is killing the trees and they will have to be replaced at what cost?
Cancel culture at its worst.
I don’t get some of the comments, or even why this is an issue. Persky wasn’t up to the job of being a judge, but, I why would lack of competence in one sphere would require him to retire in a completely different sphere. I guess he is a good tennis player, and he may be (for all I know) a good tennis instructor/coach.
Civility is best measured by the quality of our compassion – never by the viciousness of revenge. Humans everywhere make mistakes, some very serious, millions of times a day. As civilized people we are called upon to find just and compassionate solutions. We appoint people to male judgements in matters of law and that is the system we have. People in this community decided to take matters in their own hands because they didn’t like the outcome. That is always wrong. Our community can never be proud of that. Some hide behind the just power of recall but the truth was that the process of law was dragged into the streets.
Fortunately, that didn’t happen in the OJ trial and the hundreds of other trials where people of good intent weigh complex circumstances and render their best verdicts and sentences.
That this happened here is a stain on the community.
That the judge is hounded wherever he goes is an outrage.
This constant persecution of Judge Persky is downright evil, it is outrageous and shameful. His sentencing in the Turner case was reasonable and within the normally accepted guidelines.
This became a very sick witch-hunt led by Dauber and picked up by all this very sick local media. They aren’t journalists anymore, simply uncivilized attack dogs. This ought to give all Americans pause, this mistreatment of Judge Persky. It’s a slippery slope from here to Nazi like storm troopers or Stalin like show trials, or Communist Cambodian death camps. The human spirit is capable of such evil, and precisely why America was built on rule of law, and the US Constitution.
Judge Persky is a fine upstanding citizen and is not guilty of anything. I wish he had a way to sue the media, those responsible for this wrongful firing, and this Dauber creature.
Dauber is a very vengeful person. It’s so sad she has been allowed to wreck so much havoc on other people’s lives.
> Persky is trained as a lawyer and is at least a decade from retirement. He could go practice law.
> Persky wasn’t up to the job of being a judge…I guess he is a good tennis player, and he may be (for all I know) a good tennis instructor/coach.
^^^He probably wishes he had gone into PE instead of law.
More fun…less hassles.
It is beyond belief how cruel people in CA can be! The judge was doing his job for years and the crazy mob is still making his life hell! Maybe Ms. Miller now so famous can step in and stop this lynching of a great just man that tries to support his family. Or better yet, since he made her so popular she might pay the judge some royalties from sale of her book and the movie.
It is really sad to see these comments from Palo Alto residents.
Chanel Miller is your neighbor. Your daughters played sports together. She was a popular, well liked, well mannered, funny, talented successful child. She was a MODEL PALO ALTO GIRL. To see her community making these cruel comments about her and her mother has been one of the most sickening parts of this whole horrifying affair.
I am so sick at heart that her family has been put through the ringer by Stanford and Turner and Persky only to learn that their own neighbors don’t even support their daughter. Probably some of the same neighbors whose kids were frankly a lot less well mannered and a lot more entitled and promiscuous and in trouble than Chanel ever was.
I cannot even say the number of times I have heard victim blaming comments from my neighbors — people I would never suspect of saying these things.
If you think your daughters have never been to Stanford frat parties while they were in high school you are wrong wrong wrong.
Shame on Palo Alto for how it is treating one of its own.
The sympathy comments directed at recalled former judge Persky, sometime followed by victim blaming are ludicrous. It was Persky who had a documented pattern of going out of his way to let males who committed violent acts against women off the hook, especially if they were jocks,. It was Persky who exhibited a well documented pattern of showing little sympathy to their victims. The students and parents at the school where he was hired to coach tennis had ample reasons to be uncomfortable with having this guy around.
To Town and Gown,
As per your own words:
“Probably some of the same neighbors whose kids were frankly a lot less well mannered and a lot more entitled and promiscuous and in trouble than Chanel ever was.”
Indeed all of them, including Chanel, need to take personal responsibility for their actions and not blame others for the poor choices they made! Chanel was not a high schooler nor was she clueless about the frat parties and what was going on during and after those parties at the time of the incident but a mature 23 year old woman who made poor choices prior to going to a frat party that day. Sad times when people blame others including the judge for the poor choices they made! Good man lost his job because of the mob mentality and the lack of self responsibility/ blame the world attitude that moves like a cancer now days in this country!
Best news of the day. Its going to be a great week. Sorry i take sexual assult very serious. Blows my mind how this area really does not feel the same way. and you wonder why theirs so much of this in the history of Palo Alto. Hope he never gets another job. SUPER GREAT NEWS.
Let’s say for a minute that she hadn’t been sexually assaulted. Let’s say for a minute that she had just got so drunk at a party that she fell unconscious outside the party beside a dumpster. Let’s say for a minute that she spent the whole night passed out beside the dumpster and awoke the next morning as a janitor came along to use the dumpster and found her, then compassionately helped her.
Would that make any type of difference to whether she is a good role model for our daughters or not?
Mauricio. What you and too many others fail to understand is that the judge and all of the people involved in this case were not put in that position to right all the wrongs in the world. We live in a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, not a pure democracy. That means that we give the persons we elect to office the power to make judgements for us. The judge and all of the public servants participating in this trial followed a fair process to reach a consensus. No one – not you, not me – who did not sit through every minute of the trial and review the evidence first hand can render judgement. The one person WE elected to make the call is the person WE, the community, designated to JUDGE. Persky decided within the guidelines at the time, after input from many other officials and experts. And he made a judgement based on ALL of the input (not just the causes or prejudices you and others want to promote). Some people decided to go after the judge by dragging him out of the courtroom and destroying his life and livelihood. That got way out of control. If the crusade Dauber organized occurred in all of the other tough cases that happen thousands of times each day in our country we would not have a justice system.
Brock Turner doesn’t appear to be anyone’s ideal – even allowing for youth. Same with the young woman. No woman should ever be drunk or drugged or both to a state of unconsciousness – at best, really poor judgement, at worst a person of really poor character. Not you, not the metoo crowd, not the so- called feminists, not those who hate privileged binge-drinking Stanford dopes – only the Judge and only in that matter – gets to make the call. That’s why we have judges. Persky was just doing his job.
@Billy
People like you would make such great jury members in a Stalin show trial. To hell with rule of law in your world. You are ready to hang someone for anything that may hit one of your emotional buttons. This is why we have LAWS and the US Constitution, to protect the rest of us from people like you, the “mob.”
First of all, people like you need to educate yourselves about the justice system and the law. Judge Persky had nothing to do with the sexual assault, he was the JUDGE and he in fact did charge Turner with multiple charges, including sexual assault. The young man was even put on the sexual offender list for LIFE. Persky doled out a very severe sentence for what happened. Persky should not have been wrongly attacked by Dauber and recalled. That was a travesty of justice. Moreover, he certainly should not have been wrongfully fired from this job as a tennis coach.
Let’s all try to remember ourselves at 19 years old (Turner was 19), on campus at college for first time, going to one of your very first frat parties. Now it’s about midnight and you’re drunk as a skunk, and meet a 23 year old woman also drunk as a skunk. Perhaps they were dancing, cavorting, kissing, who knows, yet somehow they end up outside on the ground together. Did he force her to go outside with him? Whatever happened, the two of them ended up outside on the ground and according to Miller she was sexually assaulted. Her lawyers made the case and Turner was in fact charged with sexual assault and his life was ruined by that 30-60 minutes of behavior (no genitalia touched the other, no rape occurred).
Another resident here stated:
“you think your daughters have never been to Stanford frat parties while they were in high school you are wrong wrong wrong.” What does that have to do with the price of eggs!? Besides, as pointed out, Miller was a 23 year old woman who had already graduated from College, not a Stanford grad, yet prowling at a Stanford frat party while very drunk. What was she doing there at 1am very drunk? This Miller woman should have taken responsibility for her actions, and her actions were shameful.
Can you imagine your son being put on the sexual offender list for LIFE for going to third base with a very drunk older woman, 4 years his senior!? For actions that did not result in any lasting physical harm, and all began as consensual behavior, and no genitalia made contact. This whole thing has been a travesty of justice since day one
Back to the JUDGE though, that is the main point here, a judge is being very wrongly maligned and persecuted, his family and children hurt by all of you in the hateful and vengeful mob. Judge Persky did nothing wrong. In fact, in my view Turner was given a harsh sentence for what actually happened. The sentence was for Sexual Assault, and multiple other charges.
How sad will be the day when all Americans need to be fearful of the “mob” if justice and law and our US Constitution continue to be attacked and disregarded. Many of you will be fine members of the new “judiciary” under the American version of a Comrade Stalin. Perhaps you’ll be the overseers of the re-education camps.
Since we are all allowed to speculate here, since justice has been put in abeyance in this Palo Alto Online blog, here’s my speculation. Since any mention of the Dauber name is deleted, though she is a pivotal actor in the Persky persecution, let’s see how much is “portion deleted” by Stalin’s little helpers at Palo Alto Online.
Isn’t it interesting that a national book promotion about all of this is now taking place, written by poor little Ms. Miller, only detailing her side of the story. Also, isn’t it interesting that Dauber is friends with the Miller family? Clearly Dauber went on a campaign to attack Persky and very successfully riled up a large mob of Americans who are completely ignorant of rule of law and the US Constitution. This mob successfully destroyed Judge Persky’s career as a judge, in cooperation with the Democrat Media Complex that is hard at work everyday to destroy the USA. They are back at it with Kavanaugh now, they are relentless and downright evil.
My only hope is that enough Americans out there begin to wake up and understand this is a fight for our freedom, yet again. Every generation must fight to preserve justice and the American way. There is no Superman to save us in real life, we citizens must vote to ensure the likes of Dauber and her mob mentality don’t take over our beloved USA.
.. No one – not you, not me – who did not sit through every minute of the trial and review the evidence first hand can render judgement..
This must be why several members of the jury who did sit through the evidence were shocked and dismayed at the grotesquely lenient sentence the former judge handed out, on par with the established and documented pattern of his to let males who attack women off the hook. The Santa clara voters in their wisdom realized that Persky, by letting such males off the hook, actually presents a danger to women in his role as judge, and wisely recalled him. He absolutely should not be hired for any job that puts him near young females, and the female tennis students and their parents were dead right in feeling uncomfortable with him being their tennis coach.
Where the heck have you been living these last couple of years.??? You need to do your research about this case. and yes i do remember college like it was yesterday. I’m a USC grad and never crossed my mind to sexually assult another student and a passed out one at that. MONSTERS
Re those blue trees—our public art commission needs a course in protecting the environment.
Judgement Day…. He probably made enough money to retire on.
Does not have to be an attorney by day to survive, IMHO….
Personally I suspect he would have added a lot to the JV tennis team.
Not easy to get someone to put in the required hours, essentially free
of pay. Much less from someone with a lot of on the tennis court and off the tennis court experience.
=Judge Persky DID NOT COMMIT a crime.
We have worst offenders, let out of jail everyday.
Who then live off society, our taxes, via food stamps and more.
Definitely not giving back to society.
Yes I wish he had imposed a year or so penalty. But that is water under the bridge….. Use his skillsets I say…
Impeachment is a tool provided the electorate to restrain the elected -after- they take office. Just because a Judge is duly elected doesn’t mean they are given carte blanche to ignore societal norms. If Judge Persky had been adequately vetted before the election he would have never been seated. Impeachment corrected that oversight. Being fired as a tennis coach was another case of him not being properly vetted prior. If I had a daughter I would not be comfortable having her coached by someone who “decided within the guidelines at the time, after input from many other officials and experts. And he made a judgement based on ALL of the input” to let a rapist off so easily.
And shame on everyone posting here who are attacking the victim!
And, I have to say, Persky’s decision to even -apply- for a job in a position of trust over young woman shows his judgement is clouded. That is true even -if- all of Persky’s supporters are 100% correct about him. Think about it. Sometimes life isn’t fair.
Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
>> Let’s say for a minute that
Let’s say for a minute that someone on their way to the bank stopped off for a couple of drinks on the way and ended up being impaired. Let’s say that someone else, quite impaired, noticed the cash, and robbed that person in a nearby alley. Would you say that a crime had been committed? Would you excuse the robber because they had too much to drink?
The crime aspect of this case is pretty simple, actually. A violent crime was committed, and, we don’t excuse violent crimes because the perpetrator was impaired.
Knowing that Michelle Dauber has Bill Johnson by the balls, I am wondering if the comments by “maurucio” and others that are engaging in the endless bashing of Persky are not written by Dauber herself . and of course Johnson is his role as enabler of her nasty behavior, is allowing her to post in violation of the TSF rules. Dauber is a vindictive shrew, who is bitter that she was not smart enough to pass the California bar exam.
> Dauber is a vindictive shrew, who is bitter that she was not smart enough to pass the California bar exam.
^^^Law professors don’t have to pass the bar exam? How convenient.
Perksy’s legal career (as a jurist) is probably ruined.
Chanel Moore will probably fare well with her book…even better with movie rights.
What will happen to Brock Turner?
@Anon
You miss the point of my post.
Let’s say for a minute that no crime was committed. Let’s say for a minute that the 24 year old female (or even a 24 year old male) had no crime committed against them. Let’s say that the only thing that happened was that they drank too much alcohol at a party and then passed out outside beside a dumpster. Let’s say that they remained in a drunken state until the next morning when a janitor found them and helped them.
Would that then make her (or him) a good role model for our young people.
I am not talking about the crime, I am talking about the alcohol, for a minute.
@if this was your family –
‘That was a life altering moment for this victim, one that she will move forward from but one that she will NEVER FORGET.’
How can anyone NEVER FORGET something that occurred while unconscious from alcohol and drugs(??) only regaining consciousness THREE hours AFTER and remembering nothing? (I look forward to that chapter in her book). Most of the ‘life altering moments’ will probably come from book royalty checks and the marketing of this affair for gain. She REALLY should prove her commitment to other victims by donating ALL the proceeds to shelters for the battered and abused or some other worthy cause. Why not.
Pocketing riches from this awful affair would be ill-gotten gains – seem too much like selling sex for profit. On the otherhand, a perfect opportunity to contribute to a worthy feminist cause.
Stop digging George. 🙂
Turner committed assault. It doesn’t matter if he was drinking/drunk or anyone else was drinking/drunk.
Yes, being sexually assaulted is, incontrovertibly, a life altering moment, perhaps more so if one were unconscious. To suggest otherwise is unbecoming, at best.
If Ms. Miller’s book causes even one person to become a better, more compassionate human being, then it’s publication will not be in vain. She doesn’t owe it to anyone to donate the proceeds to charity.
Brock Turner is free to write his own book if he feels he has anything useful to say.
> She was a MODEL PALO ALTO GIRL.
>> How can anyone NEVER FORGET something that occurred while unconscious from alcohol and drugs(??) only regaining consciousness THREE hours AFTER and remembering nothing? (I look forward to that chapter in her book). Most of the ‘life altering moments’ will probably come from book royalty checks and the marketing of this affair for gain.
No comment…just reflecting on earlier comments. Interesting points.
@resident of fairmeadow
“and yes i do remember college like it was yesterday. I’m a USC grad and never crossed my mind to sexually assult another student and a passed out one at that.”
Of course no young person should ever consider touching another without clear consent, and certainly not while a person is severely drunk or unconscious. Yet there are two sides to this story. Turner’s side never gets any airtime, we only hear about Miller. How traumatized she must be by all this to write a highly marketed book to profit from this shameful mess. If you take the time to read the actual trial transcripts you can better understand Turner’s side of the story.
The main point here is that Judge Persky has been relentlessly and wrongly persecuted by a hate filled media complex and mob bent on harassing and bullying him. His sentencing of Turner was reasonable. Judge Persky did nothing wrong and it’s outrageous how he was treated throughout this sordid affair by Dauber, the mob’s ringleader.
This persecution of Persky should not be conflated with the Turner/Miller case.
Once again though, this neighborhood conversation about this matter keeps going back to Turner and Miller and their actions that night in January 2015. If you read the full testimony you can see there are two sides to this story, somewhere between the two the truth can be found. Yet the conviction of sexual assault was held, sentencing was given and justice was served.
What kind of a mother drops her daughter off at a drunken frat party. And why. Does Mrs. Miller imagine that the students sit around reading Proust and composing sonnets?
What kind of a mother drops her daughter Samantha off at Roman Polanski’s house. And why.
I submit that both mothers wanted to secure their daughter’s financial future. One way or another. Didn’t go as planned, but both did cash in.