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People vs. Tuner Case Analysis Background Brock Allen Turner was a nineteen-year-old star athlete, a freshmen swimmer at Stanford University who was admitted in the fall of 2014 on a swimming scholarship. On January 17, 2015, he attended a party at Kappa Alpha fraternity house where he met the victim, twenty-year-old women who later identified as Emily Doe, her sister and their friends. Turner and the victim both consumed alcohol at the party. Shortly after the midnight of January 18, 2015, Tuner and the victim left the party and the victim was split up from her friends. The victim made a couple unintelligible phone calls from 11:54p.m to 12:28 a.m with her friends, then later on passed out behind a nearby dumpster outside the fraternity …show more content…

He pleaded not guilty on all five charges on February 2, 2015. The prosecutors drop the two rape charges on October 7, 2015 after reviewing the DNA test result. Turner was convicted the three charges of felony sexual assault on March 30, 2016 by Santa Clara County jury. On June 2, 2016, Turner was sentenced to six months of prison in the Santa Clara County jail, followed by three years of probation, and a life-long obligation to be lawfully registered as a sex offender by judge …show more content…

More than 1 million people had signed the petition on change.org, and more than 100,000 on the White House’s We the People site to remove Judge Aaron Persky from the bench. Judge Persky was criticized for failing to sympathize with the innocent women who was sexually assaulted, but recognize the attacker as the real victim of the case. He was criticized for being too lenient on the defendant for him being a privileged white male athlete from a prestigious school, and the result would be different if he was from a different social class and being a different race. Michele Dauber, a Stanford law professor and a friend of the victim’s family in the Turner case, organized a fierce recall effort to recall Judge Persky. Recall supporters plan to start collecting the 58,634 signatures they need to get the recall on the June 2018 primary election ballot to remove Judge

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