Aaron Persky, the California judge who drew national attention in 2016 when he sentenced a Stanford student to just six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, was recalled on Tuesday, the first judge recalled in California in more than 80 years.

Persky, 56, had served on the Santa Clara County Superior Court since 2003, and he began his most recent six-year term in June 2016.

In March 2016, a jury found Brock Turner, then 20, guilty on all three felony charges against him, for sexually assaulting a woman near a dumpster after she had blacked out from drinking.

The maximum sentence was 14 years. Persky sentenced Turner to six months, of which he served three before being released in September 2016.

The judge said he thought Turner would “not be a danger to others’’ and expressed concern that “a prison sentence would have a severe impact’’ on him.

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