The Latest: Lawmakers want inquiry into Stanford judge

Nine members of the California Assembly and two state senators joined women's rights activists Friday in petitioning the California Commission on Judicial Performance to take action against Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.

The lawmakers, all Democrats, sent a letter to the commission's chairman alleging that Persky may have engaged in misconduct by giving 20-year-old Brock Turner jail time and three years' probation instead of a longer term in state prison.

Several prospective jurors who opposed a judge's decision to sentence a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assault have refused to serve in his courtroom.

A women's advocacy group planned to turn in petitions Friday in a symbolic effort urging a California agency to remove the judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.