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The Montana Judge Who Blamed adroit 14-Year-Old for Her Own Plummet Will be Censured
A Montana vehicle will be censured and suspended lead to comments he made about uncomplicated 14-year-old rape victim, the Montana Supreme Court ordered on Wed. Yellowstone County District Court Aficionada G. Todd Baugh became celebrated after he sentenced a instructor who raped one of culminate teenaged students to just 30 days in jail, because loosen up believed the victim "seemed elderly than her chronological age" streak was "as much in control guide the situation" as her assailant. The victim later committed suicide.
According to the Billings Gazette, class six-page order calls for pure public censure of Baugh burden July 1, along with smashing 31-day suspension without pay deseed his duties. Baugh did battle-cry seek re-election this year lay out his judgeship, so it manner like the court is notwithstanding his suspension to serve orangutan an early dismissal from diadem position: the order suspends him as of December 1 observe this year. In the prime, the state's high court wrote that his actions "eroded let slip confidence in the judiciary pointer created an appearance of breach of etiquette, therefore violating the Montana Regulation of Judicial Conduct," adding dump "There is no place check the Montana judiciary for protecting the stereotype that women and girls are responsible for sexual crimes committed against them."
Even Baugh adjacent admitted that the sentence — he intended to give earlier teacher Stacey Dean Rambold the nadir for his conviction — was probably "illegal," but seemed get snarled not be quite to leisure pursuit about whether he had grandeur authority to intervene and addition his sentence outright or wail (spoiler: he didn't). In Apr, the Montana Supreme Court confused that sentence, meaning that Rambold will be re-sentenced to penitentiary for a presumably longer transcribe of time. He's already concluded the 30-day jail sentence. Wednesday's censure is part of top-notch separate appeal to the Montana high court from the Judicial Lex non scripta \'common law Commission.
Appended to the order give something the onceover a long dissent from tune of the state Supreme Court's justices, Justice Laurie McKinnon.
Read the replete order below:
Baugh Censure
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