Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky cited Turner’s youth, clean criminal record and other considerations when he sentenced Turner.
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Carrying a suit jacket and paper bag with his belongings, Turner walked silently from the jail and into a white SUV that sped away. “It’s absolutely horrifying that, despite overwhelming evidence, Judge Persky let him go free with really a slap on the wrist, and the woman will live with that for the rest of her life”.
His lawyer, Mike Armstrong, declined to comment. Even though there were several witnesses and Brock Turner was literally caught in the act, he was only sentenced to six months in jail because Judge Persky believed a longer sentence would have a “severe impact” on Turner.
Gary Goodman of the Santa Clara County Public Defender’s Office, who was not an attorney for Turner, told ABC News Thursday that Turner is “not a predator”.
Unlike Turner, Ramirez apologized and cried with remorse, de León said.
He must complete a sex-offender counseling class for one to three years.
He was facing up to 14 years in prison. The victim had passed out and Turner was on top of her when confronted by two graduate students passing by on bicycles.
Turner, who was 19 at the time, fled, but the witnesses tackled him and held him until police arrived, according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
Persky first spurred global outrage in June when he sentenced the former Stanford swimmer to six months in jail and three years of probation.
Persky had been up for reelection, but no challengers filed to run against him in March, months before Turner’s sentencing was revealed.
Many across the country and the world are outraged at how the justice systems fail to handle sensitive cases that involve sexual assault against women, with the level of seriousness and precision required to efficiently address the problematic entitled mentality society holds against women and their bodies. “He sees good college boys who got drunk and made a mistake”.
Turner’s case has drawn global attention and condemnation due to his lenient sentence – Turner originally faced up to 14 years behind bars – and for the presiding judge’s apparent bias towards white, affluent offenders. The former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman is poised to leave jail Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, after serving half a six-month sentence that critics denounced as too lenient. OH is a traditional open carry state. “Kinda insane. (It’s) stupid what he did and it draws attention towards us”. PHOTOS: Inside look at jail cell where Brock Turner served 3-month sentence Protesters are gathered on the sidewalk and holding signs in front of the Turner home.
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She described finally learning what happened to her at the same time everyone else did, through news reports: how she was found unconscious behind a Dumpster between two fraternity houses, her dress pulled over her shoulders, bra pulled down, naked from the waist down.
