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标 题: 美帝法治展：斯坦福强奸犯被判6个月
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 7 21:05:25 2016, 美东)
Female lawmakers expressed outrage Tuesday over the sexual assault case at
Stanford University that resulted in what critics said was a light sentence
for the convicted attacker.
The attempted rape of an unconscious woman, which took place near a dumpster
behind a fraternity party, is the latest such incident on a college campus
to make headlines and yet another example, frustrated lawmakers said, of
what’s become a societal problem.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who used to prosecute sexual assault cases as
a lawyer, said that the six-month jail sentence handed down to the former
Stanford University student-athlete didn’t appear to provide adequate
punishment.
“Typically, that would be considered an inappropriate sentence,” she said.
She further tore into the defendant’s father for comments downplaying his
son’s crime. In a letter to the judge overseeing the case, Dan Turner
argued that the verdict was “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action
out of his 20 plus years of life.”
“I thought the comments of the father were beyond inappropriate,”
McCaskill said. “You don’t characterize someone who has been convicted of
sexual assault as having ‘20 minutes of action.’ That’s not what you say.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) office was also critical, arguing that a
“short sentence sends the wrong message.”
A California jury found Brock Turner, 20, guilty on three counts, including
intent to commit rape of an intoxicated and unconscious person, penetration
of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person, for the
January 2015 assault. Two graduate students, who reportedly were riding past
on their bicycles, stopped the assault and tackled Turner.
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 美帝法治展：斯坦福强奸犯被判6个月
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 7 21:05:25 2016, 美东)
Female lawmakers expressed outrage Tuesday over the sexual assault case at
Stanford University that resulted in what critics said was a light sentence
for the convicted attacker.
The attempted rape of an unconscious woman, which took place near a dumpster
behind a fraternity party, is the latest such incident on a college campus
to make headlines and yet another example, frustrated lawmakers said, of
what’s become a societal problem.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who used to prosecute sexual assault cases as
a lawyer, said that the six-month jail sentence handed down to the former
Stanford University student-athlete didn’t appear to provide adequate
punishment.
“Typically, that would be considered an inappropriate sentence,” she said.
She further tore into the defendant’s father for comments downplaying his
son’s crime. In a letter to the judge overseeing the case, Dan Turner
argued that the verdict was “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action
out of his 20 plus years of life.”
“I thought the comments of the father were beyond inappropriate,”
McCaskill said. “You don’t characterize someone who has been convicted of
sexual assault as having ‘20 minutes of action.’ That’s not what you say.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) office was also critical, arguing that a
“short sentence sends the wrong message.”
A California jury found Brock Turner, 20, guilty on three counts, including
intent to commit rape of an intoxicated and unconscious person, penetration
of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person, for the
January 2015 assault. Two graduate students, who reportedly were riding past
on their bicycles, stopped the assault and tackled Turner.
