It's not the topic I would have chosen but it was the topic I was given to start at the top and. We were there when she recorded her audiobook in January 25th teen I was 22 living and working in my hometown of Powell told California I attended a party at Stanford she didn't attend Stanford University but she grew up. Why did you decide to go for term of the party you were out of college at that time but a sister was home for the weekend and it was my way of spending time with her so people were drinking yes a lot of red cups like a typical fraternity saying Do you remember having fun at the party what were you doing. Dancing on top of it chair and my sister was sort of coaxing me down to stop embarrassing her shemale has never denied she drank a combination of whiskey and champagne he drank until you blacked out. About 4 hours sleep in a hospital surrounded by nurses and the police deputy she had abrasions all over her body her hair was tangled with pine so I had no idea how to put the pieces together how did they tell you what they thought had happened. All they said was that I had been found and so they had been arrested and that he had been chased out. Because he had been acting hanky panky was the word that it tech to views to tell you we're. Behind. What they didn't tell her was that her underwear and cell phone were found on the ground by her body they also didn't tell her there were witnesses 2 of them who not only saw the attack they stopped it Swedish grad students Peter Johnson and Carl aren't were riding their bikes to the party that night when they saw something disturbing behind the dumpster outside the frat house and we see a couple lying on the ground one person on top of the other people's moving a lot but you just are lying there complete the still they realize the woman was unconscious Johnson says when he approached them the man later identified as Brock Turner we got up and ran I didn't really have time to think so I just chased after him I remember quiet we have it I have a sinus left side but I got my right leg in front of him and I took my body. My upper body and threw him over my leg down on the ground so Carl you go over to help Peter hole and Brock Turner Yes he was trying to get loose like he was he was squirming trying to get away Yeah he seemed drunk well separate I think you could talk and he clearly could run but they held him until police arrived they also checked on sure no she was completely unconscious I was trying to like shake her and nothing happened Chanel was taken by ambulance to the hospital in San Jose early that morning she was examined and told she may have been sexually assaulted the deputy asked if she'd be willing to undergo a rape kit test she agreed to sink in the gravity of your situation and I just thought I had passed out some land and that there is. A suspicious man at the party good bit behaving in an odd way and then no idea he was connected directly to me in any way should know sister who had left the party early and had been frantically calling and looking for her got a call from should know at the hospital and came to pick her up the sisters agreed not to tell anyone not even their parents until Chanelle new move for 10 days she heard nothing not from the hospital police a counselor nobody puts going through your head in order to survive you just shut everything down and he have to function you have to go to work in the morning so much easier to just press everything of course I had questions I woke up and didn't have underwear Why is that no one tells me where I went but you just have to keep living then one morning at her job at a small tech startup in Silicon Valley this item popped up on her News Feed the words stand for rape and intoxicated unconscious woman leapt off the screen she knew it was her and she learned for the 1st time that her assailant had penetrated her with his fingers at the very least that's how you found out what happened to this reading an article online yes it is sir real Having the news broke into law by the internet I was alone sitting at my desk surrounded by coworkers reading about how I was shaped and then penetrated and discarded in a bed of pine needles there and that's how I figured out all of those elements and they all added up and I finally understood the name Brooke Turner. Was mentioned in the article had you heard his name before. The 1st thing I did after reading the article is read the comments and there are many hateful words what were some of the call bits Oh is she doing at a frat party this isn't really rape why was she alone she is a predator because she's older Why would you ever get that Jeremy is and less sort of you say to those critics people who say you do drink until you black out you did make yourself for her. Would you say to those people. Rape is not a punishment for getting drunk we have this really sick mindset in our culture and the future is there. Great if you drink to excess Here it is there a hangover or really bad hangover they don't desire to have somebody insert their body parts inside of. The day the news broke she received a call it was deputy district attorney Ali Q nursy Who told you know she would be handling the case where there's the sort of elements of this case that stood out to you I mean the entirety of it the fact that it was a Stanford swimmer who was an Olympic hopeful really a privileged athlete and student so that stood out the fact that it was so very clear to anyone who encountered Chanel that evening that she was not conscious that she was super intoxicated so she was in no position to consent what does privilege and stand for have to do with making this more difficult to prosecute a lot of people were looking at what Brock Turner had to lose versus what he did to Chanel and so the narrative change were almost on the defense explaining why to talk to it instead of focusing attention on why did you think it was Ok why did you think. He could take advantage of her when she was in such a vulnerable state the case received international attention the media couldn't resist the story of the fall an athlete from one of America's most prestigious schools to protect her identity Chanelle was dubbed Emily doom Turner was almost always identified by his accomplishments in the pool when you saw the description of him as a champion swimmer on the Stanford swim team what did you think of that and then I stand why it was relevant and you're also reporting that my lower half was completely exposed them and that's why it's wrapped around my neck that my hair with this saddle won't that my brow is only covering one breast in their ass was pulled out and I just I don't understand why it is relevant how quickly he can move across a body of water and the contacts of that article did you feel that that description of him that was a championship swimmer. Sort of changed the narrative Yes they were framing it like he had so much to lose and were not focusing on what had already been lost for me by then she had told her boyfriend and parents but despite their love and support she felt alone Chanelle told us she became angry withdrawn and deeply depressed I would just sit it or do nothing I would stare at the screen then I would come home you know what I see. So physically I began breaking down she didn't want anyone to know she was Emily do the woman in the news 4 years later the trauma remains just below the surface I have felt if anyone ever found out that that was me it would be absolutely humiliating I felt dirty and embarrassed I My dream is to write children's books I felt you know paradigm. Is going to. Want me. It's own role model. If this were discarded. Half any good but behind it don't. Go but he wants to be. Called do you carry your wallet and those are real living all of this as well the same is so out there and a miracle also happened which was that I was saved and thinking Oh good to see and to be new to do the right thing who wanted me really to be Ok always gave me hope so they changed the story it changed the story they changed the entire show directory of my life. When we come back the trial the sentencing and Chanel Miller's compelling courtroom address to her assailant that would reverberate around the world. 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We'll show you the difference between risk and volatility understand the difference can reduce your emotions which helps generate Shapira terms in the long run call the office 858-546-4306 or register at smart investing 2000 dot com be a little social get up with Miller was at the center of one of the most high profile and consequential trials in recent memory she was sexually assaulted in 2015 by Brock Turner a former Stanford University athlete now a convicted felon known during the contentious trial as Emily do a name used to protect her identity should know Miller would become an anonymous icon for assault survivors the world over tonight in her 1st television interview Chanel Miller takes us back to 2016 as the trial approached for the then 23 year old. What was it like when you finally realized that you were going to have to face Turner in court. It was absolutely Chad and I went to a therapist almost like a personal trainer and said you know if 3 weeks take it we mentally ready but until then I thought you know after Jag me in that apartment I'm not going to go. To the case would become a media maelstrom that. You know Miller told us that as bad as the previous 14 months had been nothing prepared her for the cold adversarial and intimidating atmosphere inside the court room I remember standing outside the courtroom door and there is a very thin sliver of window in that go where you can look and and I remember seeing the back of ox head and his neck and how allow this is this is it is incredibly difficult for a victim of central salt to walk into court and fun of the perpetrator and recount the worst thing that happens to them a roomful of strangers deputy district attorney Ali can never see had charged Brock Turner with 3 felony sex crimes. Rape charges were dropped because there was no evidence of intercourse which was required in California at the time but she was convinced she had a strong case because of the 2 Swedish eye witnesses they were and took all without them we would not know the identity of Brock Turner They chased him down and they physically held him down until police arrived. He's an athlete this is somebody who got into school because of his physical prowess and these are 2 engineering grad students and they were really the most important reason why she didn't suffer a more devastating sexual assault because I believe and I argue this to the jury that had they not stopped him he would have completed that. The rape so what was the hardest part about making your case to the jury she now had no memory she was completely unconscious or too intoxicated to remember that immediate moments before so we had a perpetrator who was able to write the script Turner's 1st draft of that script was his police interrogation conducted just hours after the attack he told a detective he met Chanelle outside the frat house they started kissing and then he followed her holding hands behind the dumpster he said he placed his hand between her legs and she seemed to enjoy it he also told police he didn't recall running when the Swedish grad students interrupted them but one Turner got on the witness stand 14 months later his story changed now he said he recalled meeting and dancing with Chanel inside the fraternity asking her to go back to his dorm room leaving together slipping and falling and laughing then he said he specifically asked her if he could touch her intimately and she said yes and no he admitted running from the Swedish grad students who he claimed attacked him I thought you are bound by that kid. I thought those are the rules that's how quiet where you are to this version of events sounded like a poorly written young adult novel yes there's a lot of tangling and laughing sounds great odds with what he said shortly after having been arrested it was all completely new he had a rare and and nail narrative so in this new narrative nerd agreement. And narrative was extremely convenient. Because he needed consent he needed their word yes Turner would add one more lurid detail he claimed under oath that she had climaxed Oh I was livid I don't understand why it had been allowed to go that far I think you told us before that you felt as though you had been assaulted the 2nd time I felt like I was assaulted multiple times every time I hear reliving this like this is the list of but if I said mid as evidence and the trial took its toll the barrage of questions the mortifying food or those of her half naked and unconscious body shown in open court and worse she says Turner's defense attorney constantly objecting and cutting her off to make her words fit his narrative there remember in court that if and that's really sad she now has no memory so no has no memory there were sitting there and thinking I'll remember everything I'll remember every remark I'll remember the lighting inside this courtroom I remember the texture of the defense attorneys hair I'll remember the depth of the pain you mean the feel I'll remember right now or court it and I will write it so that it will not be lost should know poured all of those memories feelings and frustrations into her memoir know my name with anguish and humor she takes on the criminal justice system she says feels the most vulnerable when I read something you wrote. That this was not a quest for justice but a test of in durance and swearing under oath was just a made up promise honesty was for children. That's what the courtroom experience felt like to you yes after Iraq's testimony it felt like all rules had been abandoned he will go to any and to come out of this without or guilty conviction and for me it felt like how many times can we make her relive this after all. Those traumatic days you get the verdict tell me about the verdict my heart was beating exceedingly allowed it was deafening it was really hard for me to focus and I was just waiting for the sound of guilty and she heard it all 12 jurors found Brock Turner guilty of all 3 felony counts but it wasn't over the sentencing was true months away and sure Nel was asked by the deputy d.a. To write a victim impact statement a letter to the judge to inform his decision it's basically documentation of your thoughts and feelings throughout this process and I majored in literature which is basically 4 years of talking about my feelings and reading about other people's feeling so I thought wow there's an assignment that exists in the world that I was made to do. She had been keeping notes on her rifle throughout the process and in one impassioned all nighter she wove them into a defined 1st person narrative a few days before the sentencing she gave it to the prosecutor when I 1st read her letter I immediately shared it with people because I thought this is so good this is what we see victims go through what we know that they go through but it's never been summarized in such an articulate and profound way Chanelle recently read those words for her audiobook Your Honor if it is all right for the majority of this statement I would like to address the defendant directly. You don't know me but you've been inside me and that's why we're here today Chanel spoke directly to her assailant in court back she says she noticed people crying Brock Turner wouldn't look at her your damage was concrete chipped of titles degrees and Rome and my damage was internal and seen. I carry it with me you took away my worries my privacy my energy my time my safety my intimacy my confidence my own voice until today as he handed down his sentence Judge Aaron Perske acknowledged Chanel's words but also cited the defendant's good character the fact that he'd been drinking and the impact prison would have on his life judge Perske sentenced Turner to 6 months in jail a sentence at the low end of state guidelines with good behavior he'd walk free in 90 days the prosecutor had been asking for 16 years yes how did that make you. Chuck. So you're saying I just put aside a year and a half of the my life so he could go to county jail for 3 months. Their young men particularly young men of color serving longer sentences for nonviolent crimes for having a teeny weeny bit of marijuana in their pocket and he's just been convicted of 3 felonies and he's going to serve one month for each felony How can you explain that to me Chanelle didn't think her voice had been heard but it had the news website Buzz Feed asked to publish her impact statement in its entirety without giving it much thought she agreed I don't think it would take off anywhere and I actually felt really vulnerable again thinking why am I putting myself out there one last time you know who's going to sit and read through this entire thing but then you started trickling in it was 100500005 the end of the day it was a 1000000 within 4 days if you 11000000 by then her statement had been shared globally published by newspapers and read aloud in its entirety on t.v. And then bers of Congress Steve readings in the Capitol you have dragged me through this hail with you and so did people all over the world you don't know me. But you've been inside and found Zinn's of e-mails and letters addressed to Emily do flooded the courthouse eventually making their way to her kitchen table to be started coming in the next day and next day and it was really like medicine or anything like feeling the shame. Of you know bringing all the light and you heard from a number of survivors so many survivors and sometimes they would say you are the 1st person and telling this to this is the 1st time and it may have just been 6 years in the wake of the sentencing there was a national uproar and after a contentious special election judge Aaron Perske became the 1st judge to be recalled from California's bench in more than 80 years the case also led to significant changes in California law setting mandatory prison sentences for anyone convicted of