Critics of a Montana judge who handed down a 30-day sentence to a former teacher convicted of raping a student lodged a formal complaint Tuesday asking for his removal from the bench.
The complaint alleges that District Judge G. Todd Baugh of Billings showed bias and undermined public confidence in the judiciary when he said the 14-year-old victim was “older than her chronological age.”
It also faults Baugh for giving convicted rapist Stacey Rambold a lenient sentence that prosecutors have since appealed as illegal.
Representatives of the Montana National Organization for Women and the group UltraViolet delivered the complaint to the state Judicial Standards Commission in Helena.
If the five-member commission decides Baugh’s actions in the case were biased or otherwise inappropriate, it can send the complaint up to the Montana Supreme Court, which has the power to remove him from the bench.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mont-judge-faulted-alleged-bias-rape-case-20362706
Thanks...Hopefully this will be referred to the Montana Supreme Court and they’ll remove him from the bench, Montana or no other state should have judges on the bench with these views.