{"id":5524,"date":"2016-06-19T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2022-04-25T07:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:58:27","slug":"could-removing-brock-turners-judge-hurt-poor-and-minority-defendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5524","title":{"rendered":"Could Removing Brock Turner\u2019s Judge Hurt Poor and Minority Defendants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=photo><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"95%\" src=\"https:\/\/d1n0c1ufntxbvh.cloudfront.net\/photo\/c8e32f3a\/16585\/1140x\/\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=caption>Jason Doiy\/The Recorder via AP<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen we as a community reprimand or condemn a judge for engaging in such a holistic analysis and for exercising discretion, such efforts can have a chilling effect on judicial courage and compassion,\u201d the letter states. Punishing him, the defenders explain, will \u201cdeter other judges from extending mercy and instead encourage them to issue unfairly harsh sentences for fear of reprisal.\u201d The Santa Clara County Bar Association has also released a statement saying that removing Persky would be a \u201cthreat to judicial independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2016\/06\/16\/could-removing-brock-turner-s-judge-hurt-poor-and-minority-defendants#.ImSwr5eJb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> by Maurice Chammah at the Marshall Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Doiy\/The Recorder via AP \u201cWhen we as a community reprimand or condemn a judge for engaging in such a holistic analysis and for exercising discretion, such efforts can have a chilling effect on judicial courage and compassion,\u201d the letter states. Punishing him, the defenders explain, will \u201cdeter other judges from extending mercy and instead&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/?p=5524\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could Removing Brock Turner\u2019s Judge Hurt Poor and Minority Defendants?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9213,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/9213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}