Was justice served?
In this case I feel that justice has been served and will continue to be served throughout Brock's life and also throughout judge Persky's life. The perspective I am coming from is that this is a 21 year old student who has no previous crimes and let himself go and made some bad judgments. Unfortunately these actions that Brock took part in are going to serve him a far greater sentence with this blow up in the social media. This will affect him with future employment and naysayers will continue to pop up throughout his life. The same thing will happen with the judge, he is already feeling it from pressure from his own colleagues that sit in on his cases because they do not want to be affiliated with him. I agree with the Judges thoughts when he said a sentencing this severe can greatly affect his life. The only thing that will not lie is time. We will see if the three years probation will of helped Brock out or not.
Is Turner the victim of social shaming?
Turner is the the victim of social shaming. This is something that he has brought upon himself. Some might say that Social Shaming can be worse than probation, maybe even a sentence. Social Shaming takes the situation out to thousands and sometime millions more people that would normally see it. More content is created and people are easily defamed causing problems for them in everyday life. Brock will receive ridicule on the streets, his social media outlets and also discrimination from interviewers when he is looking for a job.
Can the system mete out true justice for victims of sexual assault?
After all is said and done, what is true justice? Everyone's definition will be different. This case and the attention it is receiving is a solid piece of evidence of this.
You have a valid point that Brock will continue to pay a price for this the rest of his life even though he is " Off Free" according to some people. I share the opinion that Turner is a frightening example of social shaming. I have to wonder what would happen to this case if there was no media?
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