Remember Brock Turner? The Stanford-swimmer that raped an intoxicated and unconscious woman the first month of 2015? After only serving three months of his six months sentence in jail was he September 2. released from Santa Clara county jail. There has also been passed a new bill in California this week to send future Brock Turner’s to prison.
It is great news for future rape-victims, but keep in mind that few rape-cases actually goes so far as a conviction of the rapist.
In March Brock Turner was found guilty in three counts of felony sexual assault.
1. Assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman
2. Sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object
3. Sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object
The District Attorney originally asked for Turner to be sentenced with six years in prison.
Even if Deputy District Attorney Alaleh Kianerci far from got her will in the case against the know Stanford-swimmer, the case have now made a historic difference.
After Turner only got sentenced to six months in jail on June 2. 2016, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s office, wrote the legislation for mandatory prison sentence. The bill got passed by the California Assembly on Tuesday August 29, 2016 and is as following:
AB-2888
“This bill would prohibit a court from granting probation or suspending the execution or imposition of a sentence if a person is convicted of rape, sodomy, penetration with a foreign object, or oral copulation if the victim was either unconscious or incapable of giving consent due to intoxication.”
California Legislative Information
In other words: if you are convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious person, you are now, in the state of California, required a prison sentence.
Earlier you were only required a prison sentence if you used physical force in the course of a rape.
The big difference between jail and prison is that jails are designed for suspects or criminals to be incarcerated for only a short time, and are run by local law enforcement. Prisons, on the other hand, are designed for criminals to serve long-term sentences and are most often operated by state government or Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Turner was released on Friday September 2., 2016.
