The legal team for Christine Blasey Ford, the California psychology professor who recently brought forth an allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, sent the Senate Judiciary Committee four sworn and signed declarations from four people claiming to corroborate their client’s accusation.
Former Stanford Student Brock Turner Loses Appeal for New Sexual Assault Trial
The attorney representing Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer who received what critics called as a lenient sentencing for sexually assaulting an intoxicated female, argued on Tuesday that his conviction should be overturned because he wanted “outercourse,” not intercourse, with her.
Voters made history during Tuesday’s California primary election by recalling Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky from office.
Organizers have collected nearly 100,000 signatures to recall Judge Aaron Persky from his position in June over what critics say was a a lenient sentencing of Stanford University student Brock Turner, who sexually assaulted an intoxicated female student in 2015.
On Monday, the state agency that oversees judicial discipline in California ruled that Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky did not commit misconduct, and found no evidence that he displayed bias when he handed down what was perceived by his critics as a lenient sentencing against a Stanford swimmer convicted of rape.
About a dozen demonstrators, some of them armed with guns, stood outside of convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner’s family home in Ohio on Saturday carrying signs condemning his release just one day after he was freed from serving three of his six months’ sentence in a Santa Clara County jail.
Judge Aaron Persky, the Santa Clara justice who was criticized after handing down a short rape sentence for Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, has voluntarily asked to be moved from hearing criminal cases in Palo Alto to civil cases.
Two Democratic lawmakers from San Diego want to make a letter written by a victim of rape at Stanford University required reading as part of California public universities’ assault prevention and consent training programs for incoming students.
Convicted rapist and former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner’s ex-girlfriend has written a letter, which was included in court documents, defending him and painting him in a different light than that which has been presented in national media.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns lit into Donald Trump while delivering a commencement address at Stanford University on Sunday, calling the presumptive Republican presidential nominee an “infantile, bullying” “charlatan” and an “insult to our history.”
Activists are targeting Stanford University’s graduation ceremony on Sunday, staging a protest against “rape culture” at the school, in connection with the recent conviction of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, who received a light sentence.
Rap-rock group Prophets of Rage guitarist Tom Morello reacted Friday on HBO’s “Real Time” to Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner’s sentencing of six months in county jail after being convicted of rape, saying that the “cornerstones” of the American judicial
At least 10 prospective jurors who were selected to serve on a case Stanford rape case Judge Aaron Persky is handling have refused to serve on the panel, citing their anger over his decision to give Brock Turner, 20, just six months in county prison as opposed to the six years that were originally recommended by prosecutors.
My old friend Jamie Kirchik has penned an op-ed in the Washington Post accusing Republicans who support Donald Trump of being “Vichy Republicans.” As in, collaborators with the Nazis.
Girls actress-creator Lena Dunham released a sexual assault public service announcement (PSA) Wednesday morning, dedicating it to a Stanford University graduate student who was raped in January 2015.
Public outrage and anger have greeted the six-month rape sentence handed down to Brock Turner, 20, the Stanford University student who raped a fellow student last year.