An Orange County judge has been publicly admonished by a disciplinary panel for comments he made about rape and a rape victim in 2008.
In sentencing Metin Riza Gurel to six years for rape instead of the 16 years requested by prosecutors, Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson said the victim in the case did not display the same kind of injuries he had seen in other women while working in the Orange County district attorney’s sexual assault unit.
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