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We're more obsessed than the "burn him at the stake" crowd?  Puh-lease.  It's an interesting case that still would be fairly unknown had it not been for the loud reaction to his sentencing....[/quote]

No one wants to burn him at the stake. People are just questioning what appears to be a lenient sentence for three felony convictions. No one wants the defendant to be in prison for life, but a lot of people think three months is a rather short jail sentence for someone who was convicted of three felonies. 
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NP here.  I've only skimmed the thread and have never responded, but here's my take.  The issue here is not that he should be burned at the stake, but that he should receive a just punishment.

Some thoughts:
In California, on average, rape cases are awarded sentences of 3, 6 or 8 years in prison.  Prosecutors were seeking 6 years, which is pretty standard.
[url]http://statelaws.findlaw.com/california-law/california-rape-laws.html[/url]

In an almost parallel case of a black athlete (granted a different state, but still), roughly the same situation and black student athlete Corey Batey was sentence to the minimum 15 years.
[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-brock-turner-cory-batey-show-race-affects-sentencing-article-1.2664945[/url]

While it is not unusual for white athletes with white privilege to get lower sentences, this was extremely lenient and not in line with state practices.  Judge Persky himself was a privileged white male athlete at Stanford and was likely unduly biased by Turner's similarity to his own history in awarding him this disproportionate sentence.
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The Vanderbilt case was not at all similar. It was pretty horrific.
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