On January 18, 2015, two graduate students were biking at Stanford University when they saw a man raping an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. The man saw the bikers and attempted to run away, but the bikers chased him down and tackled him. They called the police and the man was arrested. The man was Brock Turner, a freshman swimmer at Stanford University. He was intoxicated but told police he remembered everything. Meanwhile, his victim remained unconscious until she was taken to the hospital. On January 27, 2015 Brock Turner was arrested and charged with rape of an intoxicated person, rape of an unconscious person, sexual penetration by a foreign object of an unconscious person, sexual penetration by a foreign object of an intoxicated …show more content…
By focusing on how difficult everything has been for Turner, his supporters have overlooked the deeper problem of how much trauma his victim had experienced and how her life will never be the same. His victim was unconscious during the attack and did not know the details of what happened to her until she read it online. In a letter she read during the trial, his unnamed victim wrote, “And then, at the bottom of the article, after I learned about the graphic details of my own sexual assault, the article listed his swimming times.” Basically she is saying how shocking it was that after stating the horrific things Brock Turner had done to her, they commemorate his athletic abilities as if that somehow erased what he did. Turner’s father acted as though the assault was completely insignificant and unworthy of such a harsh punishment for his son. Yet a sober analysis of the matter reveals that the victim is important and the fact that Brock Turner sexually assaulted her should not be disregarded just because he was a great student and athlete. Dan Turner blames the partying culture of college for his son’s behavior but in reality, there is no excuse for sexual …show more content…
They both overlooked the victim and how much she suffered and will continue to suffer for the rest of her life. She was taken advantage of while completely unconscious, extensively examined in a hospital all night, blamed for the attack, and finally forced to go through a long trial where many discussed how great of a person her attacker was. She described this in her letter to the court, “He has done irreversible damage to me and my family during the trial and we have sat silently, listening. . .” Basically she is saying that both her and her family had to listen and suffer throughout the entire
This family was filled with lies, denial and and the need to please. From a young age Casey was raped by her father at young age and it was never acknowledge by the family because they had an image to uphold in the white picket fence community they lived in and people feel this was reflected in the death f Caylee, “The defense claims that Caylee died by an accidental drowning in the family pool and then the body was hidden to cover up secrets. One of the secrets claimed by the defense was that Casey, from the age of eight, was sexually molested by her father and there was attempted sexual abuse by Casey's brother” ( McBride). Her family was known to be a functional one people within their communities where the lived never knew that Casey was being harmed and the years of her being abused reflect on Caylee’s death. These issues were reflected because Casey may have been told not to report it just like she was told not to tell anyone of the horrendous things her father would do to her and what her brother tried to do to her.
Timothy Cole was convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault on September 17th 1998. Timothy Cole was a 26-year-old young man who used to attend Texas Tech as a business major. While he attended Texas Tech, the police was looking for a serial rapist known as the “Tech Rapist”. It was March 24th 1985 when the crime that wrongfully convicted Mr. Cole occurred. It was a dark night when 24-year-old Texas Tech student Michele Mallin parked her car near a church to get to her apartment.
AUDIE MURPHY JUNE 28, 1971 MAY 28, 1971 MOST DECORATED WWII AMERICAN SOLDIER BORN IN KINGSTON, TEXAS Audie Leon Murphy was born to poor Texas sharecroppers, Emmett and Josie Bell Murphy. He was the sixth of twelve children. Audie grew up on farms near Farmersville, Celeste, and Greenville, Texas. His father abandoned the family in 1936, when Audie was in the fifth grade.
As a clean cut man jogged away from the Alfred Murrah building on April 19, 1995. It did not raise any suspicion because there has not been an attack on the United States since December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. At 9:02 A.M America would be in shock after a rental truck filled with explosives detonates and levels half of the Alfred P. Murrah building. Moments later Timothy Mcveigh will be pulled over because of a missing license plate. He would be held in a prison in Perry, Oklahoma.
People vs. Tuner Case Analysis Background Brock Allen Turner was a nineteen-year-old star athlete, a freshmen swimmer at Stanford University who was admitted in the fall of 2014 on a swimming scholarship. On January 17, 2015, he attended a party at Kappa Alpha fraternity house where he met the victim, twenty-year-old women who later identified as Emily Doe, her sister and their friends. Turner and the victim both consumed alcohol at the party. Shortly after the midnight of January 18, 2015, Tuner and the victim left the party and the victim was split up from her friends. The victim made a couple unintelligible phone calls from 11:54p.m to 12:28 a.m with her friends, then later on passed out behind a nearby dumpster outside the fraternity
In Steubenville, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old girl was attending a local high school party with her friends. The girl was more intoxicated than others and refused to go home after the party was shut down. She then joined a group of guys who were going to another party and when they get there, the girl was too drunk to remember anything else. Two of the boys that were with her were Trent Mays and Malik Richmond. Both of them were football players at Steubenville High School, which was a big deal in small town Steubenville.
Ray Rice was a Running Back for the Baltimore Ravens in the National Football League. He was NFL Player of the year award and an All-Pro in 2009 and 2011, but he was arrested and charged for assault on February 14, 2014. He was charged with 3rd degree assault and was suspended for 2 games. Footage was released of Rice punching his wife which led to The Ravens terminating his contract and an indefinite suspension from the NFL. He testified in court and was reinstated in the NFL.
People Of The State Of California v. Brock Turner Brock Turner was a twenty Year old Stanford law student. He was on the all American swim team three years in a row and was riding on a swimming scholarship. To say the least he was a very bright young man who seemed to have an even brighter future ahead. That was all before he made the choice to sexually assault an unconscious and intoxicated female student.
As a journalist, Peterson’s job is to report the facts, not give his unsolicited opinion on the situation. This is also dangerous because, not only is he shaming the victim’s personal choice to remain silent but he is also forcing his own beliefs on readers who are simply trying to become more familiar with the scandal. By reading about his personal opinions within the article, Peterson demonstrates a lack of empathy for anyone who has dealt with sexual abuse and as a result, readers may find that his argument is unable to sound
In the summer of 2002, Brian Banks, a 16-year-old outstanding high school football linebacker from Long Beach Polytechnic High in Southern California had a promising future ahead of him. He had a verbal agreement to play for USC once he finished high school, but he had a lot of recruitment letters coming to him. Unfortunately, his future was cut short. Wanetta Gibson, a 15-year-old who also attended Long Beach Polytechnic, had accused Brian Banks of rape. That summer morning, Wanette and Brian were making out in the stairwell of the school, that night, Brian was being arrested for rape.
Throughout the days in court it was realized that no one was on the same page, because not everyone was informing the prosecutors what all was investigated. The Casey Anthony case was important to America because it showed us the un thoughtful ways one mother had lived. By the not so trustworthy stories, untrue claims and pieces of the case that didn’t get thoroughly looked
Imagine spending eighteen years of your life in prison for a crime you did not commit. The man who served that time will never get those eighteen years back. That man is Steven Avery. On July 29, 1985, at approximately 3:50 PM, Penny Beerntsen was attacked and raped by a stranger while running along a beach in Wisconsin (Innocence Project, 2016). After she picked her assailant out of a police lineup, he was convicted and sentenced to thirty-two years in prison, and for eighteen of those years, Beerntsen knew that her rapist was behind bars.
1. Born into an Catholic Irish-American family of six children and two low class working parents, James "Whitey" Bulger didn't waste any time before ensuing his career in crime. Growing up as a young kid Whitey always had dreams of "running away with the circus" and he did just that at the age of 10. He began to get into street fights and stealing and quickly at the age of 13 was when he was first charged and arrested for delinquency and stealing. Things would only escalate from here.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you are here because one person in this courtroom decided to take law into her own hands. The defendant, Mrs. Dominique Stephens, murdered the man that she vowed to love. This sole act by the defendant is violation of all morals and her husband’s right to live. Afterwards, she even felt guilty about this violation of justice and called the cops on herself, and she later signed a written statement stating that she is guilty of the murder of Mr. Donovan Stephens. Then the defendant later recanted this statement and said that she only killed Mr. Stephens in self defense.
Travis Alexander and the Beautiful Killer Sitting in a cell hundreds of miles away is a woman of small stature who is considered rather good-looking by today's standards. So innocent she seems, but don’t be fooled, for she is responsible for one of the most infamous and scandalous murders of the twenty-first century, the murder of Travis Alexander. This murder was exactly what the world wanted to read about. It was a murder of passion, lust, and betrayal committed by a beautiful woman. In the beginning stages it seemed so transparent, but the deeper America dove it became clear there was much more going on than met the eye.