Brock Turner is already out of prison, having served 3 months of his 6 month conviction for raping an unconscious woman.
Turner, who apparently has plenty of money to spend, objects to having to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, and so is paying for an appeal to overturn his conviction and get a new trial.
Turner, then 19, was arrested in 2015 after two of his fellow students at the Northern California university saw him outside of a fraternity house on top of an unconscious woman. He was convicted of sexual assault the following year.
Turner’s lawyer, Eric Multhaup, said in papers filed on Friday in a California appeals court that the initial trial was “a detailed and lengthy set of lies.” He argued that a prosecutor in the trial incorrectly told jurors the sexual assault occurred behind a trash bin.
The woman Turner was convicted of sexually assaulting, was found near a garbage enclosure but not behind a trash bin, according to Turner’s appeal. Multhaup said that implying otherwise gave the impression Turner tried to hide his activities with the woman.
The judge who gave him a 6 month slap on the wrist (3 months with good behavior) suggested that he had to consider “rehabilitation and probation for first-time offenders.” Turner apparently is not particularly rehabilitated.
Ironically, given that the sentence was lambasted as terribly light, if Turner succeeds in his appeal and in getting a new trial, he could actually end up serving more time.
Or, alternately, his lawyer could then claim that he can’t get a fair trial. It won’t give him back the whole three months (sob) he served in prison, but it would get him off from having to register as a sex offender.
Brock Turner appeals sexual assault conviction
Brock Turner, who last year was found guilty of…
No harm in having him retried. As you say, he may receive a more substantial sentence.
+Travis Bird Except for making the various testifiers (including the victim) repeat their testimony, again, in court. And the chance that, with his family wealth, he might actually get off. (Or, with the notoriety of the case, that it may be difficult to actually try him.)