A new documentary takes a critical look at the recall of the judge in the Brock Turner trial, through the lens of mass incarceration.
In 2016, Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity party. Two passersby saw the nineteen-year-old freshman thrusting upon an immobile, partially unclothed woman, next to a dumpster, and restrained him while they called the police.
The anti-Persky campaign also drew liberal critics, who anticipated that a movement to remove a judge for being insufficiently punitive in a criminal case would bring troubling unintended consequences. The retired judge LaDoris Cordell, a feminist who, in the nineteen-eighties, became the first Black woman judge appointed in Northern California and, later, an elected superior-court judge in the same county as Persky, participated in a campaign against the recall.
Richman Cohen’s film features interviews with prominent opponents of the recall, including Cordell, who says that she realized, at the time of the campaign, that “the community, the public, the media” were “being misled, and those of us who know this need to speak out.
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