somber music [reporter 1] 20 year old swimming Star Brock Turner [reporter 2] the 19 year old former high school allamerican swimmer [reporter 3] the star swimmer at Stanford University [reporter 4] contender for the olympics [reporter 5] raping an unconscious woman [reporter 6] intoxicated and unconscious woman [reporter 7] passed out behind a dumpster [reporter 8] drunk behind a Stanford Dumpster somber music [chanel miller] your honor, if it is all right, i would like to address the defendant directly. You dont know me, but youve been inside me and thats why were here today. The victim made headlines by Releasing A Heart Wrenching letter detailing the rape and its aftermath. [reporter] its gotten over 15 million views on buzzfeed alone. You dont know me, but youve been inside me. And thats why were here today. I was found unconscious with my hair disheveled, long necklace wrapped around my neck. My bare skin and head had been rubbing against the ground behind a dumpster while an ere
california at the time when al of this was going down there are a number of people who said, this was a fai sentence like, there was a pre sentence report from the probatio department, this was saddene one who had no prior crimina record and a six month sentenc was within that range. like, here are a couple of legal experts in california at the time talking about this, and talking about his sentence do you want the jets just say, i am living in kionte s and so i know what people here think, so i i m going to d what they want do you want the judge to follo the law? he was fairness ruling fo the trial. we look to whether we coul appeal the sentence, but w realized quickly that th sentence was illegal the judge had the discretion t sentence that way. what do you make of that? i mean, this was someone who hadn t been a prior offender and there is a lot to say abou what happened here, but some people felt that this wasn t enough then there are some that was saying was exactly right