The Recall: Reframed (Full Film)

THE RECALL: REFRAMED examines the 2018 recall of California Judge Aaron Persky, who lost his judgeship after handing down a sentence deemed too lenient by many in the infamous sexual assault case involving Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. The recall came at the height of the #MeToo movement, and some hailed it as a victory against rape culture, white privilege, and a system stacked against survivors of sexual violence. But there’s more to the story. The film offers competing perspectives and asks the difficult question: Who actually bears the burden when we demand harsher punishment for a privileged white defendant?
This June, The Emancipator will partner with THE RECALL: REFRAMED impact team on a four-part editorial series featuring issues tackled in their film, which will be available to watch right here, for a limited time.
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[@gusmarokity6482]

I know a thing or two about the Injustice system. If he was a poor guy and prosecuted by the Van Nuys court in LA County, he would have gotten around twelve or fourteen years sentence. I myself tried to fight the system, and after almost three years in the county jail, the judge threw the book at me, ten years. There was no evidence, only one victim testified, got sentenced for two, answered ALL questions in my favor so the court had no choice but to mislead my jurors. They lied about the ages of my kids, instead of two and three jurors were told four and five, prosecutor re-enacted my testimony from ch court out of context, my defense counsel did not make an opening statement and when trial was over he told bold face lie to my jury in order to convict me, also did not produce my most important wittness to my trial though subpoenas were ready, and judge lied to me interrupted my testimony then did not let me back to the podium. By the way, forging trial transcripts is a habitual activity, both ch court and criminal in order to cover their 'tracks' ie. tricks. Even the LA Times wrote a big editorial of my prosecutor who became a judge right after my trial, that how sorry they were the Times in promoting her to be one when she brazenly violates accused rights, describing her scheming exactly the way she did to me.

[@robertmcnearny9222]

When you have judges investigating other judges, you arent going to get a fair rulong. That is the peoblem.

[@robertmcnearny9222]

So, this is nothing more than a puff piece that we shouldnt hold our judges accountable when they make horrific rulings. Yes, he should have been recalled.

[@projectfashionworks9716]

Ridiculous. The judge's words were enough to point to bias. This film is the legal system judging themselves and it's not objective at all. Discussing the rates of incarceration with this case makes zero sense. These women act like it's such a tragedy that he's on the sex offender list.

[@jollyroger6135]

18:00 Defund the Police certainly didn't age well.

[@eliantemes730]

Hey girl from de-bug why dont you say why those people are being incarcerated? maybe they're guilty

[@meganlm2]

This video pissed me off. The people interviewed should be ashamed of themselves. That are not taking everything into consideration as they accused the media. Once again, we are allowing privilege to come before women’s rights and respect. It isn’t enough that he is on a registry. We are not talking about a bag of weed or check kiting. They know people don’t always check the registry. Yes, the justice system needs reform as it unfairly targets minority populations. This IS NOT the case here however. Sexual violence does so much lifelong damage. There is nothing to be replaced or fixed about it. The legal system should absolutely have been held accountable for this sentencing. Do NOT attempt to use the inequity and inequality of minority groups of people to sugar coat and misinform. Shame on you all.

[@Rhyas9]

-Didn't see the need to consider recusing himself as a Stanford Alumni. Yes yes I get the "what if the other judges are Stanford alumni too?" argument, and we do have to stop somewhere when trying to avoid bias, but he didn't raise it himself first. Also, it is VERY RELEVANT that Judge Persky's status as Stanford Alumni might be an issue because Brock was a Stanford athletic star.
-Independence of the judiciary cannot be entirely exclusive to the public interest. Jurisprudence is following the law, and deciding on the law as it pertains to the public interest, for which the laws are supposedly enacted for. In fact, often times, and in this particular case, Judge Persky ruled according to his discretion based on some form of arguable public interest (young and promising people shouldn't rot in jail and waste their lives, rehabilitate not retaliate blah blah), so what's so hard to understand about the public also wanting their arguable public interest (deterrence, setting an example, harsh on sexual crimes) to be considered?
-There's much said about how the recall campaign was founded on misinformation and cherry-picking. I'd argue that Judge Persky, in giving a lenient sentence because he felt Brock would be ruined in jail was also cherry-picking. Why Brock? Don't tell me in all his other cases with similar circumstances he applied himself consistently? Why didn't he bust the other pleas? He had the discretion to. See how just as "discretion" is used to discredit one side, it can also be used on the other. And to lawyers/judges, please understand that ordinary folk don't know the law and the intricacies inherent, and after a certain point your "explanations" aren't going to help. Society lets the problem fester, society will ouroboros itself. Don't act surprised that Judge Persky is being "scapegoated".
-It's very easy to say his judgement was lawful. It's also very easy to react to the reaction and say the usual "cooler heads should prevail" and/or "we shouldn't scapegoat". After a certain point, when this sort of criminal activity (which apparently is all because of that no-good booze and party culture) becomes too prevalent to ignore, why should cooler heads prevail? If after so many ignored/dismissed reports and warnings, nothing still gets done, why are people pikachu-faced when the guillotines start falling?

[@jollyroger6135]

The recall was an example of mob justice. It was based 100% on emotion, 0% on rationality.

[@marcelrobinson]

So judges are above public scrutiny in your eyes?

[@sean2mush]

It was an example of democracy, and show that judges aren't beyond reproach. I wouldn't want to be part of society that thought that a 6 month sentence for violent rape is rational.

[@jollyroger6135]

@@sean2mush he got three years probation and a lifetime of being on the sex offender registry. That is not a slap on the wrist by any stretch.

[@jollyroger6135]

@@marcelrobinson your logic is taking power away from judges and then complaining about how judges are now contributing to mass incarceration. You can’t have it both ways.

[@marcelrobinson]

@@jollyroger6135 Had Persky went with the prosecution’s suggestion of 2-6 years in prison plus the lifetime appointment of bring on the sex offenders list, this case would not have made headlines. It’s only because of Persky’s bad discernment, that Brock Turner got 6 months and he lost his elected position because that is far too lenient.
Judges are contributing to mass incarceration, when they dull out punishments that far exceeds the crime or do you think someone should do years in prison for minor nonviolent offenses?