Oh my, and this comes out of that liberal bastion California, from whence all demented national trends come. This judge should be lynched.

Just because the state votes liberal doesn't mean the judge is. I have no idea what his views are on other things. I could care less. Agree in full with the last sentence.

This is strange ...... what school was he educated at ??

Hmm... It does bring up the interesting question about rape (regardless of the particular article cited here, which has specifics in it that changes the below).
On the one hand, it's a perfectly viable strategy for a woman who's about to get raped to be non-violent, wait till it's over, to prevent more harm being done to her body than just the rape, in which case a doctor probably couldn't tell if the sex had been forced upon her or not.
On the other hand, it's a perfectly viable defense strategy for a rapist to say that the non-violence (and the lack of traces of physical violence on the woman's body) simply means the sex was consentual.
As for "rape being impossible, because the body shuts down", that's beyond me. It's typically one of the sticks we use in Europe to hit the Yankees with, there still being many people who believe that. On the other hand, Europeans still elect Presidents from different variants of "the Socialist Party".

If this guy isn't struck off as a judge immediately, Calfornia's judiciary will have no legitimacy. You might as well have a judge saying: "I'm not going to send this man to jail for murder, because it's clear that his body was possessed by a poltergeist at the time" or "This woman is clearly guilty of witchcraft. Burn her."

bo_sox...it was a cheap political shot at liberalism. It's what I do. :P

But...CA...chances are the guy is a liberal judge, let's be honest.

Apparently the relevant authorities merely "admonished" the judge for his shocking, unacceptable statement. That's not good enough. He should never be allowed to hear another case ever again.

"But...CA...chances are the guy is a liberal judge, let's be honest."

Derek Johnson is a judge in Orange County Superior Court. Orange County is a traditional Republican stronghold in California, although in recent years that is slipping.

"bo_sox...it was a cheap political shot at liberalism. It's what I do. :P"

I know, I just didn't play along ;)

@THM: Stole my line, but I still don't know what party Johnson aligns with.

@red: "On the one hand, it's a perfectly viable strategy for a woman who's about to get raped to be non-violent, wait till it's over, to prevent more harm being done to her body than just the rape, in which case a doctor probably couldn't tell if the sex had been forced upon her or not…. On the other hand, it's a perfectly viable defense strategy for a rapist to say that the non-violence (and the lack of traces of physical violence on the woman's body) simply means the sex was consentual."

On the other other hand, it's perfectly acceptable to say that if a woman - or man I guess - claims that they did not want to partake in the activity, it was essentially a sexual crime. Now, obviously, one must prove that that was the case. However, we have DNA, we have very practical tests to show that the actual sex happened, and so the only thing we can really rely on is the testimony. That's the problem in most of these rape cases.

On the other other other hand, if a man were to ever take advantage of a woman or vice versa without consent, that man should be thrown in the doghouse for the maximum Norwegian sentence of 21 years - nuff said :)

"As for "rape being impossible, because the body shuts down", that's beyond me. It's typically one of the sticks we use in Europe to hit the Yankees with, there still being many people who believe that"

There are many people that still believe that, and unfortunately many of these voices are leading members of two religiously prevalent political parties that are in violation of Roger Williams' ideology of separation of church and state, HOWEVER they are also often in violation of basic anatomical knowledge and keep exacerbating this fact by continuing to screw up the definition of rape time and time again. There are stupid people in Europe too, though on that level I'd honestly hope not.

"If this guy isn't struck off as a judge immediately, Calfornia's judiciary will have no legitimacy."

Too late. The California judiciary doesn't have a problem with child rapists being judges, I'm sure this will get a pass as well.

Child rapists as judges? More info please?

Never heard of that, Tolstoy.

I googled "California judge child rapist" and variations on that theme, and couldn't see anything related to Tolstoy's claim.... What are you on about Tolstoy? Which Californian judge is a convicted child sex abuser?

The only thing I could find was an anti-freemason/illuminati article about Canada's criminal justice system and government.

Google "craig kamansky"

Orange County also had a pedophile judge about 10 years ago, although he wasn't accused of raping any children so far as I can remember; he was actually beaten in a judicial election (which are normally Soviet-style only-one-candidate-on-the-ballot affairs) by a write-in candidate. The state commission on judicial performance didn't think either of these judges should be removed from the bench.

He wasn't accused of raping any children, so you referred to him as a child rapist?

Actually, he was...

http://defend.dot5hosting.com/id79.html

California Judge Craig S. Kamansky - now with Inland Valley Arbitration & Mediation
San Bernardino County

In 1994, attorney Terrence Goggin, SB# 43835, filed civil rights suit, Case No. 94-7641, in Riverside Superior Court, on behalf of Plaintiff, Jason Bumpus; a boy Judge Craig Kamansky, allegedly took under his wing.

Probation officers Mildred Kelly and Thomas Callahan were also named.

According to the suit, Jason, who was in Juvenile Hall, and often given passes to see Judge Kamansky in closed chambers, was repeatedly sodomized by the judge.

The suit also alleged, while at Juvenile Hall, Jason's mother committed suicide under 'unusual' circumstances. She supposedly stabbed herself in the chest.

The suit further alleged Jason was allowed to attend the funeral, after which, he also attempted suicide; and that Judge Kamansky was allowed to remove Jason from Juvenile Hall, whereupon Jason was taken by the judge to his home.

The civil rights action settled, with the county paying for some of Judge Kamansky's defense.

Jason Bumpus committed suicide.

Ultimately, Judge Kamansky was publicly censored for one instance of bad behavior; taping over the video tapes he earlier agreed to turn over to the Commission.

The Commission on Judicial Performance, Did Not Address the allegations leading to the erased video tapes.

Judge Kamansky remains on the bench. We hope, not in Juvenile Court

I wonder why he taped over the videos (isn't destruction of evidence a felony, by the way?)...

IIRC, he videotaped himself raping the victim. The Commission on Judicial Performance politely asked for the tape, and Kamansky "accidentally" taped over it while trying to copy it. The CJP gave him a stern finger-wagging as a result.

THM: I was referring to two different judges, should've made that clearer.