Tag: Brock Allen Turner
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All-Girl Indie Rock Band Under Fire After Drummer Defends Stanford Swim Team Rapist
An all-girl rock band has been dropped from performing at a New York event after remarks defending convicted Stanford University rapist Brock Turner came to light. Good English was disinvited from Brooklyn’s Northside Music Festival this weekend after drummer Leslie Rasmussen wrote a letter defending convicted rapist Brock Turner. She helped convince the judge to…
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Sentencing memo: Brock Turner lied about drinking, doing drugs
Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, lied about his history of drinking and drug use when he portrayed himself in a statement to probation officials as an “inexperienced drinker and party goer,” prosecutors contended in a sentencing memo. Turner is serving a six-month jail sentence for three counts of sexual…
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Stanford rapist Brock Turner: “I’ve been shattered by the party cultureâ€
In a pre-sentencing letter to the judge released today by the New York Times,convicted rapist Brock Turner fails to own any responsibility for raping an unconscious woman behind a trash dumpster on Jan. 17, 2015. Turner’s plea letter reads like a laundry list of white male privilege lost. It touched the white male judge in…
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Light sentence for Stanford rapist sparks national outrage
Last week, 20-year-old Stanford swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Turner was facing up to 20 years, and the lenient sentence has drawn criticism from observers — including the victim, who had pushed in court for a harsh punishment. Judy Woodruff talks to Michelle Anderson…
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After Months of Requests, Mugshots of Stanford Rapist Brock Turner Finally Emerge
It was the epitome of white privilege, the narrative went — a student and star swimmer at prestigious Stanford University is arrested on rape-related charges, and after more than 16 months, he’s sentenced to only six months. And the authorities refuse to let the public see his arrest photo. Until Monday, when Stanford and Santa…
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Did judge let ex-Stanford swimmer off easy with sex assault sentence?
A northern California judge faces outrage over a former college swimmer’s six-month sentence in a sexual assault case at Stanford University. The attack was stopped by two grad students who happened to ride by on bicycles. John Blackstone reports on how they found Brock Turner and the victim and what they told the authorities. https://youtu.be/I9MN5crqADU…
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Was Stanford rape case sentence legal?
CNN legal analysts Danny Cevallos and Joey Jackson discuss the six month sentence handed out by a court to Brock Turner who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on the Stanford University campus.
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Star Stanford Student Caught Mid-Rape, Here’s How The School Responded
He’s claiming he never raped her, but was only hooking up with her.
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Stanford rape survivor’s letter to her attacker
At Brock Allen Turner’s sentencing, the woman he sexually assaulted read a letter to him about how severely the incident impacted her mental well-being. CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield reads excerpts of the letter aloud. Turner was sentenced to six months in jail. https://youtu.be/gTMZOP1AsGc