Six months in jail for rape. Is that just?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/sexual-assault-brock-turner-stanford/

Excerpt from the article......
Widespread outrage has erupted over a California judge's decision to give a former Stanford University swimmer a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Critics are blasting the decision as far too lenient.

Prosecutors had asked that Brock Turner be sentenced to six years in prison for the January 2015 assault.
The controversial sentence was followed by the release of two dueling letters to the judge about the case that have been widely shared and sparked further outcry: one from the victim, who described her ordeal in 12 searing pages; and another from Turner's father, who dismissed his son's crime as "20 minutes of action."

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Was it a just sentence?

 

HELL NO!!!!

Total miscarriage of justice. This is right up there along side of Affluenza kid.


The father writing the judge and asking him not to ruin his son's life over 20 minutes of action, what kinda of bullshit is that. There are many people in this country who have had their lives ruined for a lot less than what he did and doing it in less time than 20 minutes.

If I were the kid's father I would have been kicking my son's ass for the shame and humiliation he brought down no only on himself but the family. Perhaps he should have been teaching his son some valuable lessons like if you do the crime (which he did, got eyewitness to attest to it) you do the time.

The judge a Stanford Alum clearly went easy on a star athlete at Stanford, hmmm maybe there was a conflict of interest there maybe not but hey he should have recused himself.

 

Not a good example during an election year. :toimonster:

 

Just goes to show how fucked up our judicial system is.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...sgusted-brock-turner-ruling-article-1.2663595

Our amazing non racist judicial system.

 

I knew a guy in college. He was a member of our theater group and a cast member. We were a couple of weeks away from our first performance and he got himself arrested for drug dealing...near a school in broad daylight. He was released, but when word of his arrest reached the school president, he was banned from setting foot on campus. The theater instructor went to bat for the guy and the president allowed the guy to enter only for rehearsal and the performances. After that, we never saw him around again.

As to this guy, raping unconscious women is totally fucked up. They weren't asking for it. They were unable to resist because they were impaired. A prime target the rapist.

And all this guy gets is six months in jail and probation because he is a star athlete in an Ivy league school?

The judge's ruling on this case makes me wonder if the judge had done that same crime before and got away with it.

If Bill Cosby isn't getting a pass, no one gets one.

 

Totally unjust, total slap in the face to the victim and all rape/sexual assault victims. I know the type of world we're living in yet, I'm still amazed and truly disgusted at how the wealthy and "connected" find reasons to help out their own. Even the guy's lousy excuse of a father.

One thing I always admired about my parents is that while they supported us as their children... Right is right, and wrong is wrong. If we happened to land in the wrong area... In their eyes we had to face the consequences.

This totally stinks. I think they just upped the ante on the "Affluenza" BS.

 

Agreed! I was thinking of that same article. It sucks that in a world where we're seeing clearly rampant racism... Some want to pretend it doesn't exist. I remember once back in my college days... I was on my way to take a final exam. Had just gotten off the train was leaving the subway station. I was approached by a transit cop. He was standing outside of a transit police district station and was in plain clothes, but I immediately had him made as a cop. Anyways, he propositioned me to volunteer to be in a lineup. He explained that it was a mugging victim, they had apprehended a person whom they were sure was the culprit, but that I fit the physical description of the suspect from the vicitm and of the person they had in custody. I know he could see the uneasyness on my face, but I politely declined, told him that if I was free to go I'd like to continue on my way.

I was 19 y/o old and suddenly scared that someone (the victim) would swear I was the suspect and suddenly the police would change their tune, and they nor the prosecutor would have any interest in seeing that I was truly.innocent.

 

WM getting passes for shit BM get the book thrown at them for. There was another story about a group of white teens who raped a disabled black kid but of course the media doesn't want to talk about that.

Johnny Depp beats his wife (allegedly) and the news is still talking about that damn gorilla, when Chris beat Rhianna and ray rice hit his wife the media jumped on that like flies on shit.

 

A prime example of White privilege...just like the "Affluenza" Teen.

Rhianna beat a woman at the airport far worse than Chris Brown did to her...crickets on that shit.

She took the keys out of his ignition and flung them into the darkness,then got slapped.

That's what's called a beating nowadays.

 

Wow, fuck the kid, fuck the judge, and fuck the kids bitch ass sorry ass father talking about "he won't be able to eat his favorite food, steak"

 

There's talk about trying to pull this judge.

But I'm wondering if there is really anything legally that can be done.

 

It's like they are begging people to take the law into their own hands.

 

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Its ridiculous . how in the world can he justify that

 

Right! I thought that Affluenza crap was BS, and now this. You really have to feel for the way the justice system actually works against the best interests of rape/sexual assault victims.

Anyone remember the case in NYC when the off-duty (and drunk) NYPD officer raped the young teacher in an alley? The cop got jail time, but they convicted him on a lesser charge because the young lady couldn't recall the color of a parked car near the entrance to the alley he forced her into. There was even an eyewitness who was the person that called the police.

 

Well if you compare it to the epidemic of White/F teachers raping their students and many of them serving no jail time, this sentence is actually excessive.

 

Aaww snap...its gonna get live up in here

 

Hmmm! I agree that it's wrong, but I respectfully disagree.