Brock Turner: The Sort of Defendant Who Is Spared “Severe Impact”

Brock Turner: The Sort of Defendant Who Is Spared “Severe Impact”
It's always the poor that pay. "So you won’t find defense lawyers like me cheering Brock Turner’s escape from appropriate consequences. We see it as a grim reminder of the brokenness of the system. We recognize it as what makes the system impossible for many of our clients to trust or respect. And we know that when there’s a backlash against mercy and lenient sentences – when cases like this or the “affluenza” kid inspire public appetite for longer sentences – it’s not the rich who pay the price. It’s the ones who never saw much mercy to begin with."