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Chanel Miller on Brock Turner's Lenient Sentence: "I Felt Like I Had Failed"

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In 2015, Chanel Miller was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner on the Stanford University campus. Fourteen months later, after a grueling media frenzy and trial, Brock Turner was unanimously found guilty on 3 charges of sexual assault, and handed a a lenient 6-month sentence. He served just 3 months in a county jail, sparking a national debate on racial bias and class privilege. Here, Chanel describes how she felt silenced and minimized by the court system because of Brock's light sentence.