This happened four years ago:

During a 2008 sentencing, Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson said the matter of a man convicted of raping his former live-in girlfriend—after threatening to mutilate her with a heated screwdriver—was not "a real, live criminal case."

"I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something. If someone doesn't want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down," the judge said, according to documents released Thursday by the state Commission on Judicial Performance. "The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage is inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case."

Judge Johnson sentenced the man to six years in prison, instead of sixteen as prosecutors asked. But it's only coming to light now because the California Commission on Judicial Performance finally got around to publicly admonishing Judge Johnson, who's still sitting on the bench. That's it. A four-year-old finger wag for breaching judicial ethics, breaking California law (which doesn't require proof that a rape victim struggled in proving rape), and letting a rapist off light.