What I don't understand is how come the University get to decide how a crime is punished? Were the police involved? Lawyers? The courts? Do they have the rule of law in that increasingly weird country?
Universities prefer to handle this stuff by keeping it quiet and hoping nobody notices. Young rich white men "have bright futures ahead of them, and some youthful dalliances shouldn't ruin that for them," is the standard justification. It's fucked, and really common.
Oh, from what I've seen they are. I've already seen multiple posts that are getting the "Do you mean..." treatment and one of the ex-writers for Southpark is setting up a website specifically about them and their crimes in response to how Cornell handled this.
No, that was worse IMO because Turner was convicted because there were two Swedish grad students that were witnesses. Then the judge gave him six months (he served three) and probation. So yes, it’s related, but it was an actual conviction for which he got an insultingly low sentence.
I think in the Brock Turner, he is a rapist forever, case, the police arrested him after brave bystanders intervened. And the DA prosecuted but a judge let him off with a slap on the wrist.
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u/PatentlyFalse5 14d ago
No idea, but people should be pissed off at how this was handled.