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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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The salient points are the same.  Corey Batey claims to have been drunk when he raped an unconscious woman.   Brock Allen Turner claims to have been drunk when he raped an unconscious woman.  Corey Batey was videotaped by someone else performing the crime.  Brock Allen Turner took photos himself of the woman's exposed breasts and texted them to friends.  These are the salient points of the crimes.   Yes, the rest of the environment was different.  Corey Batey was in a crowd of multiple student athletes who were all involved in the assault and the recording of the incident.  Brock Allen Turner was alone and encountered a drunk and passed out student and thought that he'd just take his pleasure and no one would ever know about it because no one else was there.  Until two other students discovered him.

While the window dressing was very different, the crimes were not.  Both men were drunk and sexually assaulted a drunk and unconscious woman.  Regardless of whether you think it was substantially different, the point is that 6 months probation with 3 months off for good behavior is unreasonably disproportionate for a violent crime.

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