Brock Turner, the former Stanford student and star swimmer convicted of sexual assault of an unconscious woman, is scheduled to be released from jail on Friday, September 2, CNN reports. Turner was sentenced in June 2016 after being found guilty of three felony counts for sexually assault, Business Insider reported.
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Courtesy Santa Clara County Sheriffâ s office â Brock Turner is pictured in his booking mug following his sentencing in his sexual assault conviction.
Now, after spending three months behind bars, Turner is slated to be released on “good behavior”, according to jail records.
Turner’s sentence was held by many as an example of a criminal being given a significantly light punishment for a crime that, were he not white and upper-class, would have been much more severe.
The uproar over the sentence, fueled in part by the victim’s harrowing letter in which she detailed the assault in graphic terms, comes amid growing outrage over sexual assault on US college campuses.
Turner is required to register as a sex offender after his release, and will reportedly serve three years of probation. In the wake of the decision, more than one million people signed a petition calling for Judge Persky to step down from the judicial bench.
Last week Persky asked to be removed from all criminal cases and there is a campaign to unseat the judge all together which is being led by Stanford law professor Michelle Dauber.
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The Santa Clara Superior Court announced earlier in August Persky was voluntarily removing himself from the civil division and would instead hear civil cases.
