re: Brock Turner (Stanford Rapist) to be released from jail this Friday

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His victim wrote a powerful letter to the judge about the impact the assault had on her body and her life.

In a decision that outraged many, Judge Aaron Persky gave the “star athlete” rapist an extraordinarily lenient sentence. Persky has since stepped down from criminal trials altogether.

Judge Persky “asked to be reassigned from hearing criminal cases at the Palo Alto courthouse, where he has been under intense fire since early June for sentencing former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to six months in jail rather than a longer term in jail for sexually assaulting an intoxicated, unconscious woman outside a fraternity party,” the San Jose Mercury News reports.

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