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(hooves trotting) 20-year-old swimming star brock (somber music) turner, the 19-year-old former all-american. the star swimmer at stanford university. contender for the olympics. raping an unconscious woman. intoxicated, and unconscious. one passed up behind the dumpster. drunk behind a stanford dumpster. [sirens] your honor, if it is all, right i would like to address the defendant directly. you don t know me, but you ve been inside me, and that s why we are here today. but the victim of that headlines, by releasing a heart wrenching letter, detailing the rape and its aftermath. he s got over 15 million views on buzzfeed alone. you don t know me, but you ve been inside me. and that s why we re here today. i was found unconscious, with my hair disheveled, long necklace wrapped around my neck. my bare skin and head have been rubbing against the ground behind a dumpster, while interact freshman was hunting my half naked, unconscious body. i read ....
Under the law, does not mean he is cooperating with the doj, right? yeah, that s right. we don t really know the content of his testimony. it s possible he went in there and invoked his own fifth amendment right against self incrimination. we know the chief judge said that he could not hide behind executive privilege. so, he had to testify about things that might be incrementing toward trump, but he may have declined to answer questions that could be incriminating toward himself. or, it could be that he s cut a deal, that he got some sort of immunity, in exchange for his truthful testimony, a promise that he would either not be charged or be treated lenient lee. we just don t know all the things that he said. i do think it s a significant piece of news. that s because this was really a very necessary step for the justice department to take. before they can make a charging decision in both cases. you just don t want to have the uncertainty of one during whether there s more facts out ....
Deal, that he got some sort of immunity, in exchange for his truthful testimony, a promise that he would either not be charged or be treated lenient lee. we just don t know all the things that he said. i do think it s a significant piece of news. that s because this was really a very necessary step for the justice department to take. before they can make a charging decision in both cases. you just don t want to have the uncertainty of one during whether there s more facts out there that you just don t know, whether they re helpful or harmful to your case. what you really don t want to happen, you charge the, case the case to his goes to trial your from, now and mark meadows comes in his defense witness, and says all kinds of things you didn t know before. i think the fact that they have ....
Than that, as we know. crime is much more complex and what these prosecutors these judges do, is only one piece of the very, as we said, systemic system. so i don t think recalls are a good idea. and we never recall judge who punish too lenient lee we only, sorry, we never recal judges who punished to charsley, only to lenient lee. and this is part of the crisis of mass incarceration. so no, i don t think there should be recalls. i don t think there used well, and i think they contribute to more years in prison and t entrenching ourselves in the - crisis has this later foundation where if you don t like what a judge is doing, you can simply put that judge on the ballot and put it to the voters because it seems like this i where it is going. we hear more about this all of this incident in th wake of judge persky yeah. we know that more voting doesn t necessarily mean mor democracy. it doesn t mean more democrati ....