Brock Allen Turner was convicted by jury trial of three counts of felony sexual assault. On January 18, 2015, on the Stanford University campus, Turner sexually assaulted 22-year-old Chanel Miller while she was unconscious. The case influenced the California legislature to require prison terms for rapists whose victims were unconscious, and to include digital penetration in the definition of rape. In September 2019, Miller relinquished her anonymity and released an autobiography entitled Know My Name: A Memoir in which she discusses the assault, trial, and aftermath.
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Brock Allen Turner was convicted by jury trial of three counts of felony sexual assault. On January 18, 2015, on the Stanford University campus, Turner, then a 19-year old student athlete at Stanford, sexually assaulted 22-year-old Chanel Miller while she was unconscious. The case influenced the California legislature to require prison terms for rapists whose victims were unconscious, and to include digital penetration in the definition of rape. In September 2019, Miller relinquished her anonymity and released an autobiography entitled Know My Name: A Memoir in which she discusses the assault, trial, and aftermath. In December 2017, Turner appealed but lost on August 8, 2018. Turner was eventually released after serving only three months in jail. In June 2, 2016, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to six months in prison followed by three years of probation. There was also widespread criticism of what was seen as a light sentence given by Judge Persky, and he was recalled by county voters on June 5,2018. By the conventions of U.S. courts and media, the woman Turner was found guilty of assaulting was called \”V01\” in the redacted police report on the incident, and “Jane Doe” by local and regional newspapers. In an interview with police, she said she did not recall being alone with a man during the night and did not consent to any sexual activity. At the time of her assault, Doe was a 22- year-old alumna of a different college and was called “Emily Doe” in the indictment, and ‘Jane Doe 1’ by the Palo Alto Weekly and the San Jose Mercury News.
In the trial, Turner testified that he was laughing because he found the situation ridiculous. He was arrested in 2014 for possession of alcohol while under legal age. In February 2015, Turner was indicted on five charges: two for rape, two for felony sex assault, and one for attempted rape. He pled not guilty to all of them and the trial concluded on March 30, 2016. According to a deputy sheriff who questioned Turner, when she arrived at the hospital, the victim did not respond to being shaken by the deputy sheriff, and later said she had pine needles in her body and dried blood on her hands and elbows. The victim later testified at Turner’s trial that at the time she regained consciousness, she had blood, dried blood, and dried skin on her hand and elbows on her skin. The jury found Turner guilty of three charges of felonysexual assault. In January 2015, two graduate students intervened and held Turner in place until police arrived. The two students, Peter Lars Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt, tripped him and held him down around 75 feet away from the dumpster, asking, ‘What are you smiling for?\’ According to Jonson, Turner quickly rose and fled the scene. In March 2016, Turner admitted to police that he had taken LSD, ecstasy, marijuana extracts, and excessive alcohol.
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