SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on the Palo Alto campus after a party, will serve only half of his six month jail sentence.
Turner, a 20-year-old, blue-eyed white Olympic-caliber swimmer, and the judge in the case, a former Stanford athlete, have been the target of scrutiny and widespread outrage due to the already lenient sentence.
Online inmate records show 20-year-old Brock Turner is expected to be released from the Santa Clara County jail on Sept. 2. He was booked June 2.
County jail inmates serve 50 percent of their sentences if they keep a clean disciplinary record. Calls to the county Department of Correction weren’t immediately returned Thursday.
Turner was convicted of attacking a woman he met at a fraternity party in January 2015 and was sentenced last week to six months in jail and three years’ probation.
Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky gave Turner six months in the county jail and ordered him to register for life as a sex offender, citing his lack of a criminal history, his numerous character references, and what the judge said was the unlikelihood of his committing another such crime.
California jail inmates are generally freed after serving half their sentences.
Prosecutors had asked for six years in prison.The Associated Press contributed to this report.