“He should be in prison right now, but he’s not in our custody”. “Any violation may land him back in front of a judge, where he then could face a stiff prison sentence”.
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As Turner left the jail, wearing dress trousers and a wrinkled white shirt, a small group of demonstrators and members of the press watched. Turner’s father lamented that his son’s life was ruined by “20 minutes of action” and his grandparents complained that “Brock is the only person being held accountable for the actions of other irresponsible adults”. 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. For hours after his pre-dawn release from the Santa Clara County jail, about 200 people demonstrated outside, calling for the judge in the case to resign.
Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, whose office had recommended Turner serve six years in state prison, authored Assembly Bill 2888, which would prohibit probation in cases like Turner’s. Why did he get out after 90 days?’ said Pfeiffer, who said she is a rape survivor.
Turner did not answer questions from reporters, climbing into the vehicle which quickly sped away.
Turner’s trial lawyer indicated he would.
The sentence set off a storm of outrage and was widely criticised as too lenient, with prosecutors labelling it a “slap on the wrist”.
In the meantime, supporters of the judge responded with their own campaign this week with a website called “Retain Judge Persky”.
Last month, Persky asked to be assigned to the court’s civil division.
California’s formula has changed several times over the years. The bill is awaiting California Governor Jerry Brown’s approval and signature.
Turner was injured after two Good Samaritans saw him assaulting his victim, an unconscious woman. “So never stop fighting, I believe you”. “And I don’t want something like this to happen to her”.
“He’s just not welcome”, Molly Hardin, one of Turner’s neighbors, told CBS.
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. He’s on probation for the next three years.
“There was a lot of hate”, she added.
“However, this was not the case”.
California state Senate president Kevin De Leon calls for the removal of Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from the bench, at a protest outside the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Sept.
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He’s gone from being an Olympic hopeful to having to register as sex offender for the rest of his life. Typically, the goal is to address underlying anti-social behavior that leads to distorted ways of thinking about sex, relationships and empathy toward others. He will be required to submit to random polygraph tests and waive patient-counselor confidentiality privileges. “But we came forward and we’re here today to make sure that your voice, along with all the other women that have been assaulted from a sex crime, are heard”, she said. According to WHIO, one protestor penned a message in chalk on the family’s sidewalk, writing, “Its your job to hold your son/self responsible so he/you don’t hurt my daughters”.
