The law provides for a mandatory minimum for a reason and part of it is because of judges like this, who take the side of young, “promising,” white male rapists:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/13/illinois-judge-reverses-conviction/

This judge has been removed from handling criminal trials and now will only be allowed to fuck up small claims, probate, civil cases and other legal matters in the Eighth Judicial Circuit court in Western Illinois.