With his 6-month jail sentence already drawing criticism online, Brock Turner may only serve half that amount, based on the website of the local sheriff’s office.
The Santa Clara County website lists information on inmates in its jail, including booking and release dates, all of which is publicly available information.
In Turner’s case, the website lists his release date as September 2, 2016 – just three months after his official booking date:
Screenshot from the County of Santa Clara website.
The Washington Post reports that it’s typical for inmates to serve only half their sentences, according to Sergeant James Jensen of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office. If inmates disobey orders or fight while interred, their sentence can be extended up to the length of the original sentence.
Turner was sentenced last Thursday to 6 months in jail followed by probation. He was convicted earlier this spring of three sexual assault charges: assault with the intent to commit rape, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration of an unconscious person.
That was the result of a January 2015 incident in which two grad students on bikes discovered Turner – then a member of the Stanford swimming & diving team – on top of a girl behind a dumpster late at night. The grad students confronted Turner, Turner ran, and the grad students detained him, finding the girl unconscious. Turner was arrested shortly thereafter and has since been removed from the Stanford swimming program, Stanford University and barred from setting foot on campus.
http://www.revelist.com/us-news/guy-bullied-brock-turner/2912
I like what food for thought says. From what I’ve gleaned from the transcripts, they were a couple of (drunk) young kids who consensually hooked up at a party, consensually headed off to his room, fell on the ground at some point, consensually fooled around… before she (unfortunately) passed out. Not a cool ending for either of them, all very sad.
Emotions aside, llogically if turner believed he was guilty or even remotely felt he might be found guilty, as a Stanford “geek” surely he logically would have settled it, it’s just plain dumb to go to court if you can settle instead, right? Logic dictates that he believed he was innocent (of the charges, not the drunken stupidity), it… Read more »
Will the NCAA revoke his eligibility?
Swimmom – the NCAA doesn’t actually have any rule in place at present that would allow them to do so. There was a case a few years back about a football player at Alcorn State that was a registered sex offender, and the NCAA’s stance has always been “it’s up to the member institutions to make those rules, just like it is their job to make rules about who they admit” (paraphrase).
Maybe the judge was leniant on the sentence because he understands that both the victim and this Turner kid were both black out drunk and neither one of them has a clue what happened that night. I am not for a second saying that she “deserved it” or anything like that, but both kids (yes, kids) were black out drunk leaving a party. Guess what happens when you are black out drunk leaving a party? Nothing good. If anyone out there is naive enough to think that this exact situation doesn’t happen every night on every college campus in America, you have your head in the sand. I am in no way condoning what happend, but you’ll have to excuse… Read more »
I’m sorry to learn you don’t feel a ton of compassion for the victim of this horrible crime because she was drunk. I really hope it never happens to someone close to you. And we don’t need more victim blaming.
If you can’t control yourself when drunk, don’t get drunk in the first place. And the fact that this happens often does not make it less serious, quite the opposite.
Lastly, Turner’s life wasn’t ‘forever impacted for the worse’. He did it himself, no passive tense needed.
I agree with part of your last sentence. It is sad that many other cases do not get anywhere close the amount of attention this case gets, and hopefully this will improve things… Read more »
I think there is a difference between victim blaming and pointing out the obvious correlation between being black out drunk at a college party and bad things happening.
All the rallying in the world isn’t going to change things. Talk to your kids.
“Bad things happening”? Your point about drunken errors is taken–not sure who is arguing against that. I know of no-one who says that drinking to excess is a good idea. But instead, by your phrasing, you make the sexual assault sound like a collective passive accident between two equal, consenting parties. Not true, factually, legally or morally as the court case conclusively showed with its conviction of the active perpetrator/criminal. This is was terrible, despicable crime, not a “bad thing.” And it didn’t just “happen.”
Sure, talk to your kids, good advice for everyone. Teach hem to be safe, careful and aware, sure, but more importantly, impart the more important ethical lesson: don’t sexually assault unconscious people behind dumpsters.… Read more »
I think when most of us see that Brock Turner was caught having intercourse with an unconscious, intoxicated woman, we assume that Turner dragged her there against her will and forced her to act according to his desires. Like Mike said, they were both piss drunk. For all we know, she could have fully consented and maybe even suggested herself to go behind the dumpster. Or Turner could have actually dragged her behind the dumpster. We will never know. All we know is that Both Turner and the woman were extremely intoxicated. I’ve even read elsewhere that Turner’s BAC was twice over the legal limit and the woman’s was three times over. At that level of intoxication, the ability to… Read more »
Good points, but he was not actually having intercourse; he was fully clothed. That’s why the actual rape charge was dropped. People are making this idiot into the monster that they want him to be.
There will be another offender prosecuted of every crime in the book on the ladder somewhere in America today. Let’s bring what lives on after the Turner case to a boil as well. Are the fortunate ones those who were lucky to be able to attend Stanford and then Berkeley, excel at sports like…oh I don’t know, let’s call it lacrosse the most boorish of all preppy, detached and elitist sports, glide into white shoe law firms like Morgan Forrester and then use that platform to run for the state bench. Lose election, but then get placed uncontested by another Stanford grad with ties to same white shoe law firm onto the bench a year later. Spend more than a… Read more »
Excellent points made. Why are judges an elected (but often uncontested) position in CA and some other states? I’m willing to venture you have stronger state judicial systems when these are appointed offices not elected offices, but will defer to more expert opinion.
(stands up and claps)
Joel -did you miss anything on your hit piece on the Judge? Perhaps he is jewish also? I don’t know but circumstantial would be the name Aaron & the fact that Jewish are highly represented in law in California. You are basically criticising the fact that he studied at school & got into Berkeley (top choice for college aspirants) & went on to study law at Stanford (another top of the wish list ) plus he played lacrosse – where you have it as some white elite activity . Then he did the ‘crime’ of joining a law firm run by white people. Then he went for State Bench but did not win & then guided by fellow law guys… Read more »
Further the federal 9th Circuit which is this area is seen as the most liberal court in the USA. I believe these judges are appointed yet come up with similar philosophies. . Yet again how close is the nearest Sanctuary City border ? These are the homes of liberal/progressives who like to pick & choose which federal laws they follow. I can assure if any city dod this in any British system , they would send the army in /cut off all funds immediately& starve them out.
I’d be shocked if we’ve heard the last of Mr Turner, I predict that this won’t be his last trip to “The Big House”.
This isn’t a very christian thing to say, but Brock Turner is my least favorite competitive swimmer, period! I do not like him.
Looks like he got support from the swimming community and Stanford team mates. Unreal.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/stanford-sexual-assault-letters-brock-turner-judge
I was puzzled and having a hard time understanding why Turner didn’t just settle, given the forensic evidence and the eyewitnesses both making a guilty verdict almost certain. But now that I’ve read these letters from the folks in Turner’s life, I can see how he was duped by these ignorant, or at least very naive, people into believing that he had a chance. The verdict is a good reality check for all of them, even if the sentence was pathetically lenient.
I see one Stanford swimmer, Thomas Kremer, who made a statement on Brock’s behalf in the link above. Are there any other Stanford swimmers, coaches that are trying to defend him? Just wondering.
This makes me vomit! How can USA swim coaches make a public statement to protect this rapist ( which is what he is- one who rapes is a rapist) What about the woman whose life is ruined???? And as the victim states- she represents all women!
I’m glad these letters have been published with the names of the authors listed for everyone to see. Hopefully action will be taken against the swim coaches on the list:
Kevin Weldon, head coach of Dayton Raiders, writes: “[I] feel it would be in the best interest of ALL, that he be granted probation or reduced sentence.” So also in the victim’s best interest? I wouldn’t want this person to coach my children.
Meghan Olson, assistant swim coach Dayton Raiders: “one night of alcohol-induced poor decision making” Since when is something similar to rape merely ‘Poor decision making’? And is she really suggesting that his alcohol use makes it less bad? She also writes: “[he] can unquestionably make a significantly… Read more »