© Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office / ReutersRapist Brock Turner
Persky has come under extreme scrutiny for his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner, who was convicted in March of three felony charges for the January 2015 sexual assault of an unconscious 23-year-old woman on Stanford's campus. Turner admitted to sexual contact with the woman, but said she had given consent. Both were heavily intoxicated, and the woman testified in court that she has no memory of the assault. Turner was spotted by two male graduate students "thrusting his hips atop an unconscious woman lying on the ground." The two men confronted Turner, who then fled. They chased him and held him down until police arrived.
A jury found Turner guilty of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated person, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.
Comment: The percentage of Americans voicing dissent over support of the despotic Saudi regime would likely be much higher if the Western media actually reported the full extent of the war crimes and other atrocities committed by the Saudi's and the fact that the US is complicit in these crimes.