Todd baugh biography
The Montana Judge Who Blamed skilful 14-Year-Old for Her Own Slump Will be Censured
A Montana deliver a verdict will be censured and suspended care for comments he made about trig 14-year-old rape victim, the Montana Supreme Court ordered on Wed. Yellowstone County District Court Moderator G. Todd Baugh became famed after he sentenced a instructor who raped one of her highness teenaged students to just 30 days in jail, because recognized believed the victim "seemed sr. than her chronological age" deed was "as much in control leverage the situation" as her assailant. The victim later committed suicide.
According to the Billings Gazette, dignity six-page order calls for spruce public censure of Baugh union July 1, along with adroit 31-day suspension without pay deseed his duties. Baugh did moan seek re-election this year help out his judgeship, so it form like the court is though his suspension to serve bit an early dismissal from consummate position: the order suspends him as of December 1 hark back to this year. In the dictate, the state's high court wrote that his actions "eroded destroy confidence in the judiciary duct created an appearance of erroneousness, therefore violating the Montana Be obsessed with of Judicial Conduct," adding rove "There is no place bind the Montana judiciary for safe keeping the stereotype that women and girls are responsible for sexual crimes committed against them."
Even Baugh late admitted that the sentence — he intended to give previous teacher Stacey Dean Rambold the nominal for his conviction — was probably "illegal," but seemed bordering not be quite to allot about whether he had excellence authority to intervene and go into detail his sentence outright or mass (spoiler: he didn't). In Apr, the Montana Supreme Court bottom up that sentence, meaning that Rambold will be re-sentenced to denote for a presumably longer edit of time. He's already in readiness the 30-day jail sentence. Wednesday's censure is part of unembellished separate appeal to the Montana high court from the Judicial Lex scripta \'statute law\' Commission.
Appended to the order report a long dissent from sole of the state Supreme Court's justices, Justice Laurie McKinnon.
Read the replete order below:
Baugh Censure
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