Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault last year, is appealing his conviction and hoping to overturn his requirement to register as a sex offender for life.
Turner was arrested in January of 2015 as a freshman at Stanford. Witnesses said they found Turner on top of an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on campus and that Turner fled until the witnesses ran him down and called authorities. Turner was convicted of three felony sexual assault charges in March of 2016 after a lengthy and emotional trial, and in June, he was sentenced to six months in county jail, along with probation and a requirement to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
That was when the case went viral with an audience much wider than the general swimming readership. Many on social media expressed outrage over what they viewed as an overly-lenient prison sentence, while statements from the victim and Turner’s father further stoked fires. A petition was formed online to recall the judge who sentenced Turner due to the perception that his sentence was too light. (You can read more on that development here).
Turner served his jail sentence over the summer of 2016. He was released in September after three months. He was also banned from the Stanford campus, was put under probation, will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and will be permanently ineligible for USA Swimming membership. NBC News, though, reports that Turner is appealing his conviction, hoping to have the sex offender registration requirement removed.
Turner’s lawyer argued that the then-20-year-old Turner was given a trial that was “fundamentally unfair” due to excessive media attention and other factors. Turner is seeking a new trial through California’s Sixth District of Appeals.
This story just made our local news, obviously a few days late. They made him look really bad, keep digging your own grave Brock The Sex Offender, your name won’t be forgotten for a long time.
I’m sure I’m the lone voice of uncertainty, but I always felt a little uneasy about this case. Two young adults voluntarily get wasted, voluntarily leave a party together…. period of time when no one knows what happened…. bystanders find inebriated one on top of inebriated/unconscious other. Jury finds guilty, ok, although juries don’t always get it right (ask the Innocence Project). Too much unknown for me to feel with certainty jury got it right. Not slut-shaming, or victim blaming, or man-splaining. Just too much unknown for me. And if Brock honestly felt like they were in the middle of a drunken, consensual hook-up and he didn’t realize she passed out, I can understand why he wants to appeal. Alot… Read more »
I’m with you Uncertain. She also said she doesn’t remember a thing that night, then she comes out with that letter saying how it ruined her life and she has nightmares about that night. Really, Come on!
Except there were two witnesses and when caught, he ran for it. That is enough certainty for me.
This may set a record for how many times you can shoot yourself in the foot
He has a good case- He has served and been punished almost as much under CA law as Jose Garcia Zarate, who admitted to murdering Kate Steinlie. Brock deserves the same CA justice.
I would argue that the judge, who is facing recall for his actions in this case, made sure the trial was fundamentally fair according to the law. The judge even passed sentence based upon the crimes for which he was convicted, not taking into account the rather dubious nature of Brock’s claim that the woman consented to having sex before she passed, which is something she could not deny because did not remember. One can argue about the fairness of the life time sex registration requirement in a case like this, but that is a separate issue from whether he was denied a fair trial due to excessive publicity.
He doesn’t, he should still be in jail for what he did
I would like to give Brock Turner some friendly advice. Let it go. Even if you win, you will lose. You are the poster boy for sex offender in the US. A legal requirement to register is relatively unimportant for someone with your level of recognition as a sex offender. You would be better off just keeping as low a profile as you can. Let me put your problem in perspective. I saw reference to another article saying Brock Turner appeals rape conviction or some such thing, and I said to myself “That’s the Stanford swimmer.”
What a looser, like every other criminal in this nation, he claims didn’t do nothin. Hopefully his name stays in the news so that people never forget who he is and what he did, so that he can only work at McD’s. He would have more respect in my eyes if he owned up to what he did, and was repentant.
You want him to be forced to take a low paying job working with a lot of teenage girls and waiting on a lot of children as customers. I don’t believe McDs should hire sex offenders.
The first part of this comment made me mad and then I was relieved by the end
“On top of an unconcious woman behind a dumpster.” Sheesh how low can you get?
man he looks so baked in this picture. no way he looks like this all the time – was this the night he was arrested?