Or maybe there should be more women judges, more judges from minority backgrounds, more judges from not-elite-schools.
I do not think it is at all unreasonable to ask a judge to recuse himself if he went to the same elite school and was an undergraduate at the very elite school the attack took place. On top of that, also a student athlete, also a white male (dare I ask, fraternity membership?). How much shared background with the defendant is “enough” for a judge to be recused?
The root of all this seems to me, to be far too much unwarranted empathy from the judge. (And also Brock Turner and his family are kind of terrible people, but the sick thing is that the system f’ing worked, the guy was found guilty, what specifically did not work was the judge and the sentencing…)
