https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jud...ng-n880361

"California voters on Tuesday backed the recall of the judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a campus dumpster — a sentence blasted by critics as far too lenient....

Prosecutors pushed for a six-year sentence in state prison, but Persky followed the county probation department recommendation of just six months in jail....

The recall campaign was spearheaded by Michele Dauber, a professor at Stanford Law School who says she is a family friend of the victim, known as Emily Doe...."

So, recalling judges because their sentences aren't popular, led by a friend of the family of the victim? This isn't just a case of replacing them when their term comes up. Its removing them during the term. Seems like a bad precedent.