You know what makes me happy about this whole thing? The one little thing that is good? That if anybody in the future Googles this guy or the judge, this whole case will be all over the first page of results. They fucking deserve that at the least.
That’s fair. It is the defense attorney’s job to put their best foot forwards - it is the judge’s job to decide their best isn’t good enough, and that this asshole will be spending the next decade in prison.
What kills me is he gets what is essentially a walk…and he is appealing to conviction! “6 months…no way man, that will be on my record forever! APPEAL!”
“But where do we draw the line and stop worrying about being politically correct every second of the day and see that rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists.” ETA: scooped by Budget Player Cadet
Even if I thought my kid was innocent I wouldn’t do this. Because I know it would make me and them come out looking terrible and seal in many people’s minds that the apple didn’t fall that far.
I don’t think that crap letter was the thing which decided the sentence anyway. If it was that easy to influence a judge, no one would ever do hard time. All the father accomplished was destroying his image along with his son’s. That his son got off lightly only adds insult to the injury caused by that letter.
I am perfectly happy to pit someone for trying to protect a rapist from the consequences of their actions, regardless of any blood ties. The father is a scumbag and if it were up to me would get prison time for the offensiveness of his defense of his son. In protecting his child, he’s attacking someone else’s child. That’s just evil.
The friend in question is a member of a band called Good English. The band has just had five New York-area gigs canceled by various venues, because of the letter she wrote.
In response, she has just released an open letter on Facebook, in which she attempts to explain why she wrote her letter in support of Brock Turner, and attempts to clarify what she was really trying to say.
As with so many such non-apologies, she should have remembered the useful maxim: “When you’re deep in the hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”
What a blessing we’ve got CCitizen around in threads about privileged white guys whining about the harshness of six-month sentences for rape convictions, to remind us that what’s really important is the fact that their whining isn’t illegal.
The really terrifying thing about that piece of shit Brock Turner, his piece of shit father, and the piece of shit judge? None of them are unique. They’re not even unusual. All of them are replicated thousands upon thousands of times, all over the world.
The only reason this case is getting any attention is because the victim is incredibly articulate and eloquent. Apart from that, all of this - the rapist who feels that another person’s body is his property, the father outraged that raping a woman should have any effect at all on his son’s life, the judge who agrees, the woman whose trauma and suffering are totally discounted and dismissed - all of this happens every day. Every single day. It just goes unnoticed. And if this victim weren’t so eloquent, her case would have gone unnoticed too.
On a better note, though: you know who doesn’t get enough mention in this case? The two guys who stopped the rape. They could have just kept going, figured that the unconscious girl half-naked in the bushes with a guy raping her must have somehow wanted it, not their problem. Instead they stopped it and held the rapist till the police arrived.
Brock Turner and his father and the judge may be a lot more common than I’d like to believe, but they’re very far from universal.
The perpetrator has a right to defense, but that should not mean his victim has to suffer bullying in court.
Did you read the victim’s letter? Do you understand what that sleazy lawyer put her through?
Hell, even the rapist, who seems otherwise devoid of empathy, felt the need to distance himself from his lawyer’s underhanded tactics.
No, this was not a “good” lawyer.
Absolutely disgusting.
If the judge let this sort of bullshit in any way sway his decision, as seems to be the case, he should be given the boot.