The former Stanford student made no comments as he walked out of Santa Clara County jail in San Jose, California, rushing past a large group of media.
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Perksy said he’d earned a “reputation for being fair to both sides” in a 20-year career as a public servant, including as a criminal prosecutor in Santa Clara County and in 12 years as a Superior Court judge. On Friday, he walked out wearing a blue button-down shirt and dark trousers.
A local television station followed the rented SUV that picked him up to a nearby hotel where he checked in with his parents.
The 21-year-old told authorities he plans to live with his parents in OH after his release Friday.
A legal expert who spoke to NBC says Turner will have to register as a sex offender after he’s released.
The case became national news after Turner’s victim delivered a 12-page, single-spaced letter to Turner at his sentencing in June.
The lenient sentence has triggered outrage against the Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky and has opened the national debate about how the US justice system treats sexual assault victims.
Criticism of the sentence escalated after the unidentified victim’s 12-page, single-spaced letter that she read in court went viral after it was published by the media.
“How fast Brock swims does not lessen the severity of what happened to me, and should not lessen the severity of his punishment”, the victim wrote.
Further outrage swelled this week with the news that Turner is set to be released from jail on Friday – allowing him to get out three months early for good behavior. She didn’t say whether those messages include death threats. “There was a lot of hate”, she said.
Turner can expect a visit from deputies soon after leaving the sheriff’s department, Fischer said. “He should be in prison right now, but he’s not in our custody”. “I urge Governor Brown to join the legislature in standing with victims and building a culture that suppresses these reprehensible crimes”.
On January 18, 2015, at about 1 a.m., two male Stanford graduate students riding their bikes through campus discovered Turner on top of a woman near a dumpster. He plans to appeal.
“I think protesters are going to be angry”, said Smith. “That’s why I’m here”.
Persky has voluntarily removed himself from hearing criminal cases, starting next week.
Turner’s scheduled release date is Friday, Sept. 2, three months after his sentencing.
He’s expected to return to his family’s home in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio.
“In the non-high-profile cases, one of the things that lawyers try to fight for as much as they can on behalf of their clients in cases like these is to avoid having them register as sex offenders”, Abrams said.
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Downey was sentenced to three years in jail for drug-related charges in the ’90s and spent a reasonable amount of time in and out of jail between 1996 and 2001 for drug use and possession.
