On Friday, he walked out wearing a blue button-down shirt and dark trousers.
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“Sandra Pfeiffer was one of a small number of demonstrators who watched Turner leave jail”.
Turner, who left the jail without commenting to journalists, apparently intends to return to OH to live with his parents.
In June, Turner was sentenced to six months in the county jail and three years probation, sparking outrage that intensified after prosecutors released a letter written by Turner’s father calling the assault “20 minutes of action”.
Turner’s victim, identified as “Emily Doe”, made a powerful statement at his sentencing that drew global attention. It led California lawmakers to pass a tougher sexual assault law and prompted an effort to recall the judge, the Associated Press reports. Probation, in her mind, is not a fair sentence.
“As the sheriff of Santa Clara County and a mother I believe that the interests of justice are best served by ensuring that sexual predators are sent to prison as punishment for their crime”, Smith wrote in an open letter to Gov.
“The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly, we should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error”, she wrote.
The California Assembly voted 66-0 Monday to make a prison sentence mandatory for the same crime Turner committed.
Turner assaulted the unconscious and partially unclothed woman during a party outside a fraternity house on school grounds next to a Dumpster early on the morning of January 18, 2015.
The victim had passed out and Turner was on top of her when confronted by two graduate students passing by on bicycles.
As to the heavy security, Smith said “there was a lot of hate” related to Turner’s sentence and release. Heiskala, 41, says her daughter is a high school senior planning on attending college next year. “I became closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty”, she said. “That’s why I’m here”. Turner’s sentence was incredibly lenient to begin with. The next thing she said she remembered was waking up at a hospital in San Jose, where a deputy told her she may have been a victim of sexual assault.
The sexual assault received global attention when Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to a six-month sentence on June 2.
Persky followed the probation department’s recommendation of probation and county jail time, based on Turner’s lack of criminal history, his show of “sincere remorse” and the fact that alcohol was involved, impairing his judgment. The judge eventually would ask for donations to fight an on-line recall campaign before transferring to civil court.
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“Judge Persky’s ruling was unjustifiable and morally wrong, however, under current state law it was within his discretion”, Mr.
