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EPR-radar12/07/2017 6:38:53 pm PST

For Fuck’s sake. salon.com

Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who was convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault and served just 92 days in jail, is appealing his conviction. He claims, in a 172-page brief filed by his attorney, that he did not get a fair trial, The New York Times reported.

Turner’s lawyer, Eric Multhaup, cites the exclusion of character witnesses on behalf of Turner, as well as the level of intoxication of the victim, Emily Doe, on the night of the attack, as reason for the appeal. Multhaup also took issue with the prosecution repeatedly describing the assault as taking place “behind the dumpster.”

“The appeal said the use of the phrase ‘implied an intent on the appellant’s part to shield’ his activities from others and ‘implied moral depravity, callousness, and culpability on the appellant’s part because of the inherent connotations of filth, garbage, detritus and criminal activity frequently generally associated with Dumpsters,’” the Times wrote.

Turner, convicted of sexual assault of an unconscious person, of an intoxicated person and of sexual assault with intent to commit rape, faced up to 14 years in prison for his crimes, yet was sentenced to just six months. He served half of the sentence in a county jail. Turner was also sentenced to three years probation and obliged to register as a sex offender in his home state of Ohio.

Fuck this character witness shit and level of intoxication shit ten thousand times with a rusty axe.