The newly released photos include a snapshot of Brock Turner smoking a pipe, another of a bong, and another of a young man prosecutors say was Turner’s swim team buddy, holding a bong.
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A group of California political leaders have announced they’ll work to raise money for a campaign to recall the judge who handed down the sentence in the Stanford University student’s rape case.
A small number of Stanford University graduating students used the school’s commencement ceremony to express their anger over the six-month jail sentence given to a former student for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
Court documents also show campus police gave him a ticket for underage drinking in November 2014.
Police concluded that, based on the timing of the message, and physical evidence showing that the victim’s bra had been pulled over one of her breasts, Turner had likely sent a photograph to friends.
“I am the father of four daughters”, he said, addressing the students.
Persky, who can not comment on the case, said at the time of the sentencing that he took the recommendation of the probation report into consideration.
In a June 2014 exchange, after he was asked “Did you rage last night?” At Slate.com, legal writer Mark Joseph Stern this week described the sentence as too lenient, but wrote that recall efforts against Persky threaten judicial independence. “But when we finally did we could only drink for like an hour an a half”.
On change.org, a petition calling for his removal from the bench had more than 1.1 million signatures online as of early Saturday afternoon. I can’t even get out of bed in the morning.
Brock Turner’s arrest mug shot.
The officer cited numerous factors affecting her recommendation of probation, including Turner’s lack of criminal history, his youth (Turner is 20) and the victim’s wishes.
The commission meets every six to eight weeks and usually decides whether to open an investigation within 60 days of receiving a complaint, agency attorney Victoria Henley said.
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The documents also show that he behaved in a predatory manner towards other young women at the frat party where he met the woman he would rape: he kept forcing kisses on the victim’s younger sister as she “wiggled out of his hold”. The case has also ignited discussion about campus sexual assaults, college culture, fairness and justice. The SCCBA does not itself comment on rulings in individual cases to which it is not a party or amicus, and it, therefore, will not state a position on the Turner sentence.
