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'''Brock Allen Turner''' (born August 1, 1995, in Dayton, Ohio) is an American male citizen who was convicted in a 2016 jury trial of three counts of sexual assault. The crime occurred on January 18, 2015. The trial is known as ''People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner''. Turner, a student athlete (swimming) of Stanford was found outdoors by passersby with an unconscious 22-year old female non-student who was partially unclothed on top of her and performing pelvic thrusts. He admitted that he had "fingered" her. The law in California was soon thereafter amended to include digital rape within the definition of the word "rape", but such a change cannot be applied retroactively to this case.

'''Brock Allen Turner''' (born August 1, 1995, in Dayton, Ohio) is an American male citizen who was convicted in a 2016 jury trial of three counts of sexual assault. The crime occurred on January 18, 2015. The trial is known as ''People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner''. Turner, a student athlete (swimming) of Stanford was found outdoors by passersby with an unconscious 22-year old female non-student who was partially unclothed on top of her and performing pelvic thrusts. He admitted that he had "fingered" her. The law in California was soon thereafter amended to include digital rape within the definition of the word "rape", but such a change cannot be applied retroactively to this case.

The premature charges of "rape" file by the female prosecutor, which were the "verifiable truth" of a sort for many months, closely associated Turner's name with the word. The case became widely (but incorrectly) known as the '''Stanford rape case'''. There is a great deal of amateur coverage of the case that simply uses the word "rape" to describe what happened. From a proper legal perspective, even as a convicted felon, as of 2017, Turner is not a "rapist".<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/stanford-rape-case-brock-turner-victims-statement-a7074246.html</ref><ref>http://time.com/4362949/stanford-sexual-assault-not-rape/</ref><ref>http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/06/brock-turner-sexual-assault-felony.html</ref> The case, and in particular the lengthy victim impact statement presented by the unnamed victim after the verdict, received a great deal of publicity.

The premature charges of "rape" file by the female prosecutor, which were the "verifiable truth" of a sort for many months, closely associated Turner's name with the word. The case became widely (but improperly) known as the '''Stanford rape case'''. There is a great deal of amateur coverage of the case that simply uses the word "rape" to describe what happened. From a proper legal perspective, even as a convicted felon, as of 2017, Turner is not a "rapist".<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/stanford-rape-case-brock-turner-victims-statement-a7074246.html</ref><ref>http://time.com/4362949/stanford-sexual-assault-not-rape/</ref><ref>http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/06/brock-turner-sexual-assault-felony.html</ref> The case, and in particular the lengthy victim impact statement presented by the unnamed victim after the verdict, received a great deal of publicity.

The victim was so intoxicated with alcohol that she recalled nothing of the entire evening. The judge in the case, judge Aaron Persky, commented afterward to a [[journalist]] that he believed Turner's version of the events, in particular that the victim explicitly granted him consent for sexual activity.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brock-turner-ex-swimmer-judge-in-stanford-sex-assault-case-i-take-him-at-his-word/</ref> Persky received a great deal of negative publicity for the 6-month sentence he meted out. He later switched to handling civil cases for at least the rest of the year.

The victim was so intoxicated with alcohol that she recalled nothing of the entire evening. The judge in the case, judge Aaron Persky, commented afterward to a [[journalist]] that he believed Turner's version of the events, in particular that the victim explicitly granted him consent for sexual activity.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brock-turner-ex-swimmer-judge-in-stanford-sex-assault-case-i-take-him-at-his-word/</ref> Persky received a great deal of negative publicity for the 6-month sentence he meted out. He later switched to handling civil cases for at least the rest of the year.