“Judges are allowed wide discretion”, he said.
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CNN obtained the probation officer’s report.
The next day, BuzzFeed published the courtroom statement made by the 23-year-old victim. He also criticized Turner for not accepting responsibility for the crime. “I remain anonymous, yes to protect my identity”, she explained.
“I don’t imagine how they could get all of that process, that usually takes six to eight months, done in two months”, she said.
“For a while, I believed that that was all I was”.
The local district attorney expressed disappointment in the lenient sentencing saying, “the punishment does not fit the crime”. But he stopped short of calling for Persky’s ouster, despite his disagreement with the punishment. The Associated Press and CBS News does not generally identify victims of sexual abuse or assault. She also spoke of how it felt to be “re-victimized” by the defense. Yet the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department has only just released Turner’s mugshot this Monday afternoon – and the reason why is absolutely infuriating. Persky and the other judges will all automatically proceed to the general election in November, when their names will appear on the ballot. “It’s the utter lack of self-awareness and context that makes Brock Turner’s dad’s statement so chilling”, tweeted author and actor John Hodgman.
Turner is a three-time All-American Oakwood High School swimmer and Stanford swimmer who had aspired to swim in the Olympics.
“The extreme leniency and empathy afforded to a convicted rapist, Turner, in the sentencing phase is incomprehensible”.
Rather than acknowledging having sex with a unconscious woman is morally wrong, and traumatically invasive, people like Rasmussen will retort to making absurd claims about political correctness. “The judge had to bend over backwards to accommodate this young man”, Stanford law professor Michele Dauber told NBC News. At times, the Legal View anchor was overcome with emotion reading the lengthy letter, which recounted the victim’s painful and life-changing experience. My life was put on hold for over a year, my structure had collapsed.
“After a few hours of this, they let me shower”. “I want the judge to know that he ignited a tiny fire”.
‘I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else’.
In contrast, a letter reported by several media outlets over the weekend that Turner’s father, Dan Turner, purportedly filed to the court prior to sentencing drew jeers online.
Rather, he focuses on how he will “never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile” again. His every waking minute is consumed with worry, anxiety, fear and depression.
Following the guilty verdict that was issued by California judge Aaron Persky, his father, Dan Turner, wrote a letter to defend his once Olympic hopeful son who had to pay a “steep price” for “20 minutes of action”.
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Afterward, when she stepped off set, she said she had only one regret.
