Convicted sex offender Brock Turner is now a free man after being released from Santa Clara County Jail Friday morning. A campaign to recall him is still in the works. In 2016, Asian American college freshman Kyle Vo faced very similar charges to Turner’s, and was given six years in prison. Turner is expected to go home to Greene County, Ohio.
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For now, the women’s rights group wants Judge Aaron Persky removed.
Earlier this week, legislators in California closed a loophole in sexual assault cases, whereby more lenient sentences could be issued if the victim did not resist. That’s where he grew up, and where he went after agreeing to withdraw from Stanford following his January 18, 2015, arrest.
In March, a jury unanimously found Turner guilty on three counts of sexual assault: intent to commit rape of an unconscious person, sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object. Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Rise Pichon granted that request. There was a lot of hate, she said.
Brock Turner walks from jail after serving just half his term.
“I think 6 months was definitely not enough”, Katie Goralski said. “And the impact statements that have been – or the, really, character letters that have been submitted, do show a huge collateral effect for Mr. Turner based on the conviction”. “It’s too light of a sentence for a rapist”.
After the judgement, people had started a campaign for Persky’s removal.
In his defense, Persky created his own anti-recall website, RetainJudgePersky.com, where he is soliciting donations to fight his recall. “Judge Persky does not”.
“We’re going to treat him like every other sex offender that comes through the doors”, Gene Fischer told WHIO. Jerry Brown urging him to sign an assembly bill backed by bay area lawmakers that was inspired by the case. “Sexual assault is never the victim’s fault”. The woman had passed out and Turner was on top of her when confronted by two graduate students passing by on bicycles.
“I believe strongly in judicial independence”.
“On nights when you feel alone, I am with you”, she wrote.
One thing is certain: even if she had stayed in that night, the rape would have occurred.
The victim, referred to by the pseudonym Emily Doe, released her victim impact statement publicly.
State Senate leader Kevin de León on Friday pointed to another case, that of Raul Ramirez, a 32-year-old immigrant from El Salvador who de León said admitted to sexually assaulting his roommate. You have decades of years ahead to rewrite your story. Persky followed the probation department’s recommendation for a “moderate” jail sentence. She said efforts of those concerned with the sentence should be focused on changing the system.
“However, this was not the case”.
She criticised Turner for not admitting the crime and putting her and her family through an “invasive” and “aggressive” trial. He’ll have to report to a probation officer for three years, and must avoid alcohol and drugs during that time.
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As for Turner, he’ll have to register as a sex offender now that he’s out of jail – and while nobody sensible is advocating violence towards anybody, we definitely don’t feel sorry for the convicted rapist, either. He will be required to submit to random polygraph tests and waive patient-counselor confidentiality privileges.
