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Did you know that American judge Archie Simonson was recalled and replaced by his county's first woman judge after he said that rape was "a normal reaction" to "the way women dress"?
Archie Evans Simonson (December 25, 1924 – June 15, 2018) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as a judge in the Dane County Circuit Court, Wisconsin from 1972 to 1977. Simonson was recalled in a judicial recall election following his ruling on a 1977 rape case where he sentenced a 15-year-old boy who had raped a 16-year-old female schoolmate to probation, stating that "given the way women dress, rape is a normal reaction", and that "whether women like it or not, they are *** objects". Following the recall election, Simonson was replaced by 33-year old lawyer Moria Krueger, who became the first female judge in Dane County.
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