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		danaris on June 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider... > The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced. Do you have evidence that it is not commonly how rape cases against affluent white men are prosecuted or sentenced?

dragonwriter on June 10, 2020 [–]

Well, sure, it's an outlier in such cases because it was prosecuted at all. But that's probably the opposite direction that the claim upthread meant to imply.

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