The Stanford swimmer, the rape, and the letter the victim read in court

The reporting on this story is so fucking bad that I honestly can't figure out what the hell happened to get the case to this point. A bunch of newspapers saw a vague parallel with the Stanford story, so they got giddy and ran with that.

 

FWIW, the original New York Daily News headline on this story called him the "IU frat rapist," sparking much outrage on my Facebook feed about "rape culture" and about how another judge had let someone "walk." I pointed out that the headline was possibly libelous. That was not particularly well-received.

 

Oh no Dickie no one is as smart as you. But the question is why would he take a plea bargain?

 

I don't know. I don't know enough about the case to know.

 

Plenty of people are. But not you.

 

Ahh Dickie ty for dropping your knowledge on me.

 

Brock Turner: Judge kicks himself off first sex-crime ruling since Stanford assault case

Says a "personal family situation" developed during his vacation that makes it impossible for him to rule objectively on whether to reduce a child pornography felony to a misdemeanor -- a case in which he had already done the guy a solid by going way under the sentencing recommendation. He gave the guy four days in jail when the standard recommendation is six months.

 

I need to get some cases transferred to Palo Alto.

 

Not to this judge anymore.

Brock Turner judge Aaron Persky gives up criminal cases after Stanford sex trial uproar

 

Out of jail Friday:

Ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner set to be released Friday after serving half of sentence

 

Fuck almighty. He didn't serve "half of" his sentence. This is standard.

 

Technically, it isn't wrong. The sentence was six months and he served three. But yes, there was either a certain level of ignorance or misleading intent by the person who wrote the headline.