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
- laws against sexual violence mean nothing if the judges who enforce them are biased like judge persky. - there was an effort to say no, this wasn t a one off. this is a pattern with him. - so they cherry picked five cases out of the hundreds and hundreds of cases he heard over 10 years. those cases were all plea bargains. - these are situations where the prosecution and the defense reached an agreement on the sentence. i think those are much different than the kind of case we had with brock turner. - the judge, the role we play, we get presented the plea bargain. and if the plea bargain is not violative of the law, we approve the plea bargains. now, sometimes judges bust a plea, but it rarely happens because it s a deal. the guardian, they do this big story. says raul ramirez to be sentenced to three years in prison for a case with similarities to the stanford sexual assault case