dan turner is brock turner's father. he made the infamous comment now in court that this is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of 20 plus years of life. carleen turner, it's her son, she doesn't want her son in a penitentiary. she said, i beg you, don't send him to jail or prison. look at him. he won't survive it. he will be damaged forever, and i fear he would be a major target. stanford boy, college kid. college athlete. all the publicity. this would be a death sentence for him. and i think maybe the one that stood out maybe the most, other than the father's letter, was leslie rasmussen. a friend of brock turner's who wrote this to the judge. i don't think it's fair to base the fate of the next 10 plus years on the decision of a girl who doesn't remember anything about the amount she drank to press charges genls hagainst hi. i'm not blaming her directly, that isn't right. but where do we start worry about being politically correct every second of the day and see that rape on campuses isn't always because

new details coming out about the conviction of former stanford swimmer brock turner. case already triggered critical backlash after his sentencing. jurors convicted turner of sexual assault. the judge sentenced him to six months in jail. some call that sentencing too lenient. the case files just obtained by nbc bay area show photos indicate turner used drugs in high school. texts seem to contradict turner's statement to the judge about drug use. happening today, a women's advocacy group is going to submit what it claims is a million online signatures. supporting the effort to unseat the judge who sentenced brock turner aaron persky. the group collected those signatures from various online petition posted around the world. they will submit those electronic signatures to california's commission on judicial performance in san francisco. the statement seen as widely symbolic. recall is the only thing that can happen that would take persky off the bench. that would not be for another year. >>> developing this morning, head of oakland's police department will hand in his res

brock turner -- a former stanford swimmer --- was unconcious woman. despite an emotional plea from the victim in court. he was sentenced to just six months in jail. >> reporter:now today we've learned he will only spend half that behind bars. >> reporter:tonight -- we are digging deeper. >> reporter:we investigate why turner is serving such a short sentence. we have obtained court documents which reveal more about brock turner's past. >> reporter:all this, as the backlash handed down the sentence. hits new high. we will take you through all these new developments tonight. >> reporter:but first. >> reporter:we are hearing from one of the heroes in the case. who saw and stopped the sexual assault. >> reporter:here is reporter ashleigh banfield with part of the of stories... -- interview. >> reporter:the time brock turner will serve in jail. has also caused outrage. the judge sentenced him to six- months in county jail. >> reporter:we have learned, the former, first- year stanford student. will likely serve a fraction of that time. >> reporter:new court

he sentenced brock turner for 6 months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman. >> the judge is the one who has to stand before the voters and be accountable for that. >> reporter: in court, a woman testified turner creeped her out because of his persistence at a party. the victim's sister identified him as the aggressive guy. he will get out before labor day, serving just 90 days for good behavior. >> the jail sentence is not always the most significant penalty in the case. >> reporter: bruce funk offered a different perspective on the case. a group of baseball players convicted of raping a young girl. he helped in the case. he believes he is a good judge who should keep his job on the bench. while turner is out of jail soon, he will live the rest of his life as a sex offender. >> any dreams that he had, it's never going to happen. >> reporter: but to these activists, it's not enough. >> the anger that people feel and the sense of sadness that they have, reading the survivor's letter, it's not going to go anywhere fast. >> reporter: kate cagle, kron 4 news. >> we have a page dedicated

we are beginning to get the whole story in the case against brock turner. newly released court documents reveal troubling new details about turner's past, information the judge knew before sentencing him to just six months in jail for three counts of sexual assault. >> damian is going through the documents. a huge stack of documents. >> this is what the court sent overnight, 471 pages of evidence and exhibits here that we are poring over this morning to get you all the information on the case against brock turner. nbc bay area reported about brock turner's drug use. now we are seeing the pictures. some of those pictures in the case file are troubling. they appear to show turner engaged in that drug use. in a letter to the judge, turner wrote, "coming from a small town in ohio, i had never really experienced celebrating or parties that involved alcohol." he said he was influenced by the party culture of the stanford swim team. but evidence on his own cell phone tells a different story. documents show he had several text messages from high school referring to

new state legislation will be unveiled today in our fury over the sanction of brock turner. "today in the bay" starts right now. good morning on this wednesday, thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> let's get to that forecast, shall we? >> another hot day. it won't be as hot for some of the coastal areas. we still will be feeling it for the valleys. so expect it to be rising quickly as we go into the morning and afternoon arc lot more sunshine, but we are going to start out with a few more clouds along the coast him ==mike//traffic h set== . >> a smear on the lens at the san mateo bridge. the fire is a small vegetation fire, off industrial. it sounds like it's off the roadway as well. in fact, so are the crews. this should clear really soon. the last half hour, i have been tracking this. we see a flow of traffic. we are watching that hillside fire, a tiny grass fire off the roadway at industrial, guys, back to you. >> mike, thank you very much arm party bus packed with drugs and alcohol and a couple dozen teenagers who are not supposed to be there. now the driver and po

witnesses describe the victim as motionless while brock turner sexually assaulted her. new documents obtained brock turner doesn't take full responsibility and blames the party culture and risk taking i experienced in my four months at school. the report reveals his blood alcohol was .13%. he admitted to drinking 7 beers and fire ball whiskey before meeting the victim. at the time of the report last month the victim herself said i want him to be punished but as a human i just want him to get better. he doesn't need to be behind bars. she shows a change of heart. the officer's recommendation of a year or less is an insult to me and all the women and for the first time we hear from brock brock turner's mother who wrote a letter to the judge. i beg of you don't send him to jail, look at him. he won't were vive it. he will be damaged forever. and i fear it will be a target. college kid, college athlete, all the publicity, this would be death sentence for him. and his mom's letter says he was a shy and awkward 19-year- old far away from home which was ohio and he was trying

so, maybe it's just he's the bad apple. >> reporter: if you're wondering about brock turner's six-month sentence, that's pretty much a done deal. legal analysts tell us unless there is new evidence brought in against the accused or the judge, it's not going to be thrown out. there could be -- it could be modified but that usually takes the form of shortening it, not lengthens.. >>> your backyard, your nabld might vary a little bit, but these are the numbers that we use for records and what have you. very cool below average. 75 in santa rosa, 77 in napa. fairfield was 78. 75 in con cord. 75 in livermore. these are the highs today. highs tomorrow is going to mimic them. as you look back towards griz lee peak. you see the fog. those are in response to the low pressure center that's just to the north to tus. that's allowing more cloud cover and the fog to push inland. temperatures tomorrow a lot like today. you can see the high clouds the way they come in in a wave. in the coastal stuff, it's barely there. it's kind of being lifted. it's more of a middle or low level cloud. fog and low clou

david louie, abc7 news. >>> brock turner came to stanford from a small city in ohio and abc7 news went there today. >> fewer than 10,000 people call oakwood home. >> amy hollyfield spent the day seeing the places where turner grew up. >> reporter: we're in oakwood, ohio the community that raised convicted rapist brock turner who doesn't want to talk about him. also, his fajer doesn't want to talk. dan turner was on his cell phone today, the man who had been criticized told us he wasn't interested when he realized who we were and shut the down. neighbors say the turners haven't lived on the street for long, one neighbor says his heart goes out to the victim. >> i think it's inexcusable. >> turner received a six month sentence for a sexual assault of a woman. the light sentence sparked national outrage and horrified some in the small community of oakwood, where turner grew up. >> as a resident of oakwood, kind of ashamed. this represents oakwood, nationally. it's embarrassing. >> reporter: before he left for stanford, he was a three-time all american swimmer at oakwood high school. schoo

and brock turner's sexual assault conviction sentencing continues to spur change. i'm chris sanchez in palo alto with what the sant clara district attorney is talking about today. i'm sam brock. =laura/4shot= =4shot= laura arc-cannon. ad lib toss to weather good morning, thank you for joining us on this wednesday morning. i'm some brack. >> welcome to summer. >> once again. >> another wednesday, average temperatures above 80 degrees. that's the average right now. >> yeah, that's for parts of the inland areas. also for the south bay. it will be well above that. we are looking at high heat for the next self days as we get ready for the weekend. take it in this morning as we are starting out with clouds and cooler temperatures. it's 49 degrees in the north bay, 58 degrees in the south bay and another sizzleer for the valleys, while the peninsula and the coastal areas in san francisco are feeling some warm temperatures, not that bad. we'll talk about what to expect headed into the weekend coming up in a few minutes. mike is tracking the san jose traffic. >> i am. we hav

all this as more details emerge about another side of brock turner whose lawyers say he denied ever using any illicit substances. >> texts and photos found on his phone show excessive drinking and uses drugs including this photo which is turner with a pipe. the prosecution says the picture of turner holding a bomb is another student on his phone. the summer before college, he write, dude, i did acid last week. the judge weighed all that and still decided on a six-month sentence. we know that turner will be out by september 2nd having served three months. david? >> matt gutman, thanks. >>> there were tense moments in a baltimore courtroom today at the start of a trial of a police officer accused in the death of freddie gray. he drove the police van where he suffered a fatal spinal injury. police say he purposely gave freddie gray a quote, rough ride. he faces serious charges in the case, including second degree murder. to even before opening statements, the judge scolding the prosecution for withholding evidence that could have helped the officer's defense, he said. >>> in detroit, an emot

we saw what happened with brock turner and it now we see this.is this something that is like a step around? >> in this case the -- they got into a plea deal which is a contract. i'm not sure what the judge is going to do. it will be interesting. the da has tied his hands because they will go to enforce the contract because this guy entered a plea for the two charges. >> in the brock turner case the judge his hands were not tied. that was his discretion. >> there are some similarities, but there are some differences. in the brock turner case there were one victim and this case there are two victims. >> in both these cases the victims were unconscious while the attacks happened. how much weight is that kerry. >> there is a duty of care that he had and the hospital had for this patient. these victims were entrusted into the care of the hospital. there is a higher duty to make sure that these people are not sexually molested and frankly, it remains to be seen as to whether or not there are more victims and how they will react. can the >> can the hosp

first and foremost was the fact that she was directly addressing brock turner. i think that -- that is the definition of what bravery looks like. >> reporter: the man who sentenced turner, judge aaron persky up for re-election today. in spite of the anger over the lenient sentence, the judge doesn't have to worry, scott. he is running unopposed. >> john blackstone, at stanford, thank you. >>> overseas, bombs and booby traps are slowing the progress of iraqi forces trying to retake the city of fallujah from isis. iraq is getting help on the ground from iran and from the air by the united states. today, seth doane reports from the aircraft carrier "harry s. truman" where many of the strikes are launched. >> reporter: this is what pilots see operating from the aircraft carrier. their air strikes are targeting isis. pilot. >> these are precision guided weapons they should strike where they need to. >> reporter: 20% of coalition air strikes, launch from the "u.s.s. harry s. truman." 1800 sortees since december including bomb factories, logistics hubs and stock piles o

. >> pam:judge persky sentenced former stanford swimmer brock turner. to six- months in jail for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman. tonight, kron-4's kate cagle joins us with how stanford students are planning to protest. >> pam:first. grant lodes is here with how persky's controversy is now affecting other cases. and grant we are also learning, turner will be spending even less time behind bars. >> grant: that is right! his sentencing was six months and local jails but it is likely that he will spend that amount of time is seen as a more sole owner of three months. >> grant:more so around 3 months >> grant: turner sentence is not sitting well with his classmates at stanford. today kron-4 spoke to students. many of whom said they feel >> they definitely brought this up. how it affected them and judgment. >> we still have everything humming along as normal. >> grant:and new at eight. the 'national' outrage over brock turner's sentence is reaching a tipping point. activists will deliver a petition. aimed at forcing judge aaron persky from the ben

village near the city of hebron, a flashpoint for violence in recent months. >>> prosecutors say brock turnerer stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, lied about drinking and doing drugs. he portrayed himself as an inexperienced drinker, but cell phone record indicate otherwise. as john blackstone reports, turner blames alcohol and the college lifestyle for his behavior. >> reporter: before brock turner was sentenced on three counts of sexual assault, he pleaded with the judge not to be sent to prison, and he apologized for his actions. "i wish i could just take it back. i can't believe i imposed such suffering on the victim, and i'm so sorry." in a letter obtained by cbs news, turner fails to take full responsibility. instead blaming the party culture "i briefly experienced in my four months at school." at stanford, "drinking alcohol became what i expected when spending saturday with friends." in spite of being found guilty, turner insists what happened that nights consensual. "at no time did it ever occur that she was too drunk to know what we were doing." t

they will take turns reading the letter that the victim wrote to brock turner. that special reading will happen on the house floor. >>> a sketch that stanford police want you to see, a man who looks like this broke in to two homes early friday morn and lifted the covers off of women as they were sleeping. and one woman screamed and scared the man away. and in the second incident a woman chased him out of her home. >>> a fire in the almaden valley, it came close to homes. this happened around 8:20 tonight off of falcon ridge court. the firefighters had challenges because of the steep terrain, but managed to put out of the the fire. they were saying they were lucky the fire broke out at night when the winds were low. no structures were damaged. >>> really, this meeting is adjourned. >> an important police commission meeting tonight cut short by rowdy protesters. the acting chief not happy about it. and neither were the people trying to take part in the meeting. we are live from the newsroom with what fueled all of it. >> yeah, this was a had been hearing, yeah,

matt, abc news los angeles. >>> brock turner came to stanford from small city in ohio and we went there today. >> fewer than 10,000 people call oak wood home outside of date on. >> amy spent the day seeing the places where turner grew up. >> we are in oakland, ohio the community that raised brock turner and we found doesn't want to talk about him. we tracked down his father who also doesn't want to talk. dan turner was on his cell phone when he answered the door today. man criticized for saying his son shouldn't go to jill for 6 months for 20 minute of action told us he wasn't interested when he realize who had we were and shut the door. neighbors say turner haven't lived on the street for long. with one neighbor saying his heart goes out to brock turner victim. >> father said i think it'sen excusable. >>reporter: turner received a 6 month sentence for sexual assault of woman on the stanford campus. light sentence has sparked national outrage and horrified some in the small community of oak wood where turner group. >> as resident of oak wood kind of a shame. this represents oak wood nat

and take action. >> the actress tweeted out the video yesterday specifically dedicating it to brock turner's cate caugiran, kpix 5. >>> two women apologizing for writing letters in support of turner. kelly owens a high school guidance counselor in ohio said she shouldn't have gotten involved and a friend apologized for not acknowledging the severity of the crime. in her letter to the judge, owen said turner was truly an exceptional person and student. she said that he was never boastful or arrogant but, rather, a favorite among his teachers and peers. here's some of owen's apology. it reads, i am truly sorry for the additional pain my statement has caused. i tell my students that they have to be accountable and brock is no exception. >>> an ohio judge who also wrote a letter in support of turner said she received threats. margaret quinn wrote that turner made a mistake in drinking excessively on the night of the attack but refuses to apologize calling it a sad situation for everyone. >>> nearly a million people have signed a change.org petition demanding that the judge in the brock turner ca

far. >>> newly obtained court documents in the stanford rape trial are shedding new light now on brock turnere 20-year-old former athlete convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. the documents revealed new details on turner's history of alcohol and drug abuse. prosecutors say he lied to probation officers about smoking marijuana and using other drugs. turner also said he was an inexperienced drinker and party goer. our own sara sidner is following the story, joining us live from palo alto, california. sara, what are we now learning about brock turner? was he truthful in the statement to the judge? >> reporter: it does not appear so. when you start lacking through these documents that have come out from the court, from the prosecution, a sentencing memo to the judge, trying to get the judge to give brock turner the six years of prison time that they asked for. and in it they talk about, hey, wait a minute, there are these other examples of him, before he ever got to stanford campus, talking about acid in text messages to friends and also using marijuana and doin

reporting live in san jose, i'm michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. >> let's go back to brock turner. he'll never be able to swim on the usa national team for a sanctioned event. that includes the olympics. a spokesperson for usa swimming says turner is not eligible for the organization now. nor will he be in the future. it's also important to note that turner was not a member of usa swimming when he committed the crime because he let his membership lapse in 2014. >> this case is closed. but the future of the presiding judge is in question. today a group delivered a petition with more than a until signatures calling for the judge's removal. nbc bay area's pete suratos is in san francisco. this is a deliberate political process. what happened today? >> reporter: raj, there were a combination of efforts today -- one dealt with the judicial commission to take action and the other one presented with the voter-based effort. at the time there's no guarantee any of the plans will work. >> the boxes each had a hard drive with what organizers say is over a million signatures of people calling

for the first time we are getting a look at the case file surrounding the recent conviction of brock turner. this is a case that started discussions and criticisms of the sexual offender. and the judge who handed down a much shorter sentence than expected. jurors convicted turner of sexual assault and assault on an unconscious woman. the judge sentenced turner to six months in jail instead of ten years in prison outraging victims' rights groups, law makers and folks across the world. that court file shows photos submitted as evidence that show turner used drugs in high school contradicting some of his own testimony. there are texts that contradict his statements to the judge. jamie is pouring over those documents right now and will joins at the top of the hour. >> women's advocacy group is going to submit what it claims is almost a million online signatures supporting the effort town seat the judge aaron persky who sentenced turner. they are going to submit those electronic signatures to california's commission on judicial performance in san francisco. the judge can only be removed by a rec

there are people like brock turner crossing the graduation stage today. >> a judge convicted brock turneror sentenced him to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a fellow student on campus. with good behavior he could be out of jail in three months. >>> a car crash claimed the life of a bicyclist in campbell. a car and the cyclist collided. the cyclist died at the scene. we are working on getting more details as to exactly what happened. >>> 5:17. city of san francisco is battling an epidemic of car burglaries. police and prosecutors are blaming each other. the police say a new law that reduce felony crimes to misdemeanors is the result of the rise of robberies. police have not made enough arrests. only 2% of cases are solved. out of the more than 26,000 reports of break-ins last year, that's the most in the country on a per capita basis. >>> 5:18. time to get a look at that forecast with kari, see what the week holds. >> it looks nice. especially when you consider it was so warm over the weekend. won't be as warm in the next couple of days. looking at cooler temperatures all around

but there was another family in this case, brock turner's.e words his mother wrote to the judge who would decide her son's sentence. >> i know what a broken heart that feels like, it's a physical pain that starts just below the collarbone and extends just below the rib cage. it's a crushing and heavy ache. this verdict has destroyed us. and her prophetic message of fear that he would be a target. a stanford boy, collegiate athlete. all the publicity would be a death sentence. today, swimming banned him for life. >> i think what this case is making everyone think about is, you know, boys from nice families, from dayton, ohio, can do these things, and what are we going to do about that? >> not mentioned once in his mother's letter, the victim. >> reporter: has he ever apologized? >> he has not apologized for sexually assaulting her. >> reporter: has he ever taken responsibility for this? >> he's apologized for drinking and made some apologies for how she feels. >> reporter: turner insisted throughout his defense that the victim consented to the

. >> anger across the globe that's spiralling to new heights overt sentencing of brock turner. new court documents tell us how the former stanford student tried to justify his actions. >>> the sit down meeting that could put an end to the power struggle over the democraticy. bernie sanders heads to the white house. the question on everyone's mind, will he finally bow out of the race? >>> warriors come out flat, fall short in cleveland game three. lebron james and his fellow cavs finally show up to the party. "today in the bay" starts right now. good morning and welcome on this thursday. i'm sam brock. >> i'm kris sanchez. laura garcia-cannon has the day off. it's going be to a beautiful day. >> it will be just like yesterday. we'll have the morning clouds in the afternoon. sunshine, still comfortable weather. it is now 60 degrees in the east bay and 54 in the north bay after those clouds once again roll out of here. we'll have mostly sunny skies and temperatures in a low to mid 70s. san francisco is up to 64. not bad at all. i'll let you know how long this lasts and if it conti

david louie, abc7 news. >>> brock turner came to stanford from a small city in ohio and abc7 news went there today. >> fewer than 10,000 people call oakwood home. >> amy hollyfield spent the day seeing the places where turner grew up. >> reporter: we're in oakwood, ohio the community that raised convicted rapist brock turner who doesn't want to talk about him. also, his fajer doesn't want to talk. dan turner was on his cell phone today, the man who had been criticized told us he wasn't interested when he realized who we were and shut the down. neighbors say the turners haven't lived on the street for long, one neighbor says his heart goes out to the victim. >> i think it's inexcusable. >> turner received a six month sentence for a sexual assault of a woman. the light sentence sparked national outrage and horrified some in the small community of oakwood, where turner grew up. >> as a resident of oakwood, kind of ashamed. this represents oakwood, nationally. it's embarrassing. >> reporter: before he left for stanford, he was a three-time all american swimmer at oakwood high school. schoo

brock turner's father stood up in a character reference for his son. k's life has been deeply altered forever by the events of january 17 and 18. he will never be his happy go lucky self and eats only to exist. those verdicts broken him and shattered him and the family in so many ways and life will never be the one he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. that is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. that was the reaction in the courtroom when that was read out loud in front of the victim in front of her family and friends? >> i think people were very stunned. there were a number of the victim's friends, high school and college friends there. all of them were crying. i think that this is very insensitive to compare the problems associated with not eating your favorite food to being sexually assaulted. i think it shows a lack of compassion for the victim in this case. i feel that if the father would have even acknowledged, even for a moment the survivor and said, my son did this terrible thing to you and i

don't do this to him because you will be affecting other judges. >> brock turner could be released for good behavior. stanford university said it did everything it could to support the victim and banned brock turner from campus less than two weeks after that attack. julie. >>> heather holmes in the newsroom. thank you. >>> a jury in los angeles county decided today that the man known as the grim sleeper should be put to death. >>> we the jury in the above entitled action affix the penalties for david turner death for execution for the murder of deborah jackson a human being. >>> last month lonnie david franklin, jr. was found guilty of ten murder it is committed between 1985 and 2011. all of the victims were black women. the killings were the work of the grim sleeper because of a gap of about 14 years between two of the murders. >>> new figures released show californians continued to save water in april and succeeded in meeting the state's mandatory water conservation order. the figures come as some water agencies across the state prepare to ease restrictions. the state will lift the m

and brock turner attacks her. two grad students find her unconscious behind the dumpster, a jury convicts turner of three felony accounts. the prosecutor asked for six years in prison, the judge sentenced him to three months in jail and three years probation. the decision sparks outrage and more than 950,000 people online, trying to recall the judge. then letters in support of brock turner of revealed. some partially blaming the victim for drinking. others turning brock turner into the victim. turner's father writes in part, his life will never be the one he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. that is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. that letter causes its own firestorm. another father's message to the turners going viral. >> there's no scenario where your son should be the sympathetic figure here. he's the asail an the. i can't imagine as a father how gut-wrenching that reality is for you. but it's true. >> the deeply personal words of a victim managing to s

officials in santa clara county released court documents in the trial of former stanford swimmer brock turner. good evening. i'm frank somerville. >> i'm julie haener. those documents reveal new details about turner who was sentenced to six months in jail for the sex wall assault of a woman outside a campus fraternity party last year. those documents show details from the night of the assault, including a text message september through a third-party app suggesting pictures from that night may have been taken on turner's phone but no pictures were ever recovered. the documents also show turner had a prior arrest for underage drinking as well as an encounter with another woman who said she had an uncomfortable encounter with turn tear week before that assault. >> the documents also included pictures recovered from turner's phone that appear to show him and his friends smoking marijuana. they also included text messages of turner talking about drug use and drinking while he was still in high school. prosecutors used the evidence to try to contradict turner's statement that the assault happened i

the petition comes after the judge chose to sentence convicted rep-- rapist brock turner to a mere six months in prison. they would deliver the petitions tomorrow afternoon at the memorial service for peace going will be held in foster city tomorrow. the 27 year old was found shot to death last month he went missing in april. >> pam: phillip people charged with his murder one of them being the victims, a girl friend and mother of their two children. the service is expected to start at one in the afternoon at the central peninsula church and thousands of people are expected to attend the final service for legendary boxer muhammed ali. thank you everyone and we will see you tomorrow. >> justin bieber in a brawl. fists flying. >> how it went down. >> then the identical twin who went over a cliff, killing her sister. she is free. >>> plus, revenge of the lion. but is it real? >>> and the story behind the photo of a trump supporter supposedly beaten at a rally. it's a fake. look where they got it from. >>> then the new o.j. simpson documentary. simmon selling cars, and the wedding day kiss

are the story. >> reporter: of the dozens of people who wrote character letters in support of brock turner, at least two of them have said they regret doing it. turner's high school guidance counselor kelly owens wrote to judge aaron persky saying he was a man of character and undeserving of the outcome. she's now apologizing. in a letter to the judge, turnerer wrote, coming from a small town in ohio i had never really experienced celebrating or partying that involved alcohol. before the former olympic hopeful was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus last year, prosecutors wrote to the judge saying he was drinking excessively and using drugs before he enrolled at school. prosecutors saying they discovered dozens of text messages to prove it, where turner brags about drinking and hard drugs. >> it's really remarkable that brock turner would write a letter to the court and explain that this crime was a result of the alcohol culture at stanford. >> reporter: the victim in that same courtroom read her emotional statement to turner at sentencing. now that testimony re

sfifrt of all, sara, did brock turner lie to the judge when it come 0s it his alcohol use? >> translator: it appear it's does. apparently he talked about being from the small town in ohio and he wasn't really used to the alcohol-fueled partying culture that exists here on the stanford campus. but prosecutors showed evidence on his own phone, on his cell phone, showing text messages where he's asking about pot and he's talking about doing acid before he showed up on stanford's campus and after. there are pictures that they have found on his phone of a bong. there's a picture of him smoking what they call dabs, which is a very highly concentrated potent form of marijuana. so the prosecutor's point to the judge was, look, you have someone herewith making him seem one way when indeed he was another. he deserves at least six years in prison. but he did not get that. the judge decided, looked over all the evidence, and said, no, i made a resuming that he gets six months and by the way, he will only spend three months in jail because california law when you send someone to county

someone has created a brock turner family support facebook page. tonight it has more than 6,000 likes and the administrators claim to be turner's parents saying their son is the real victim. but turner's attorney tells us the family is not involved with the page in any way. people still firing back at the posts. one man wrote, no matter what you say what you argue, what your son did was wrong, disgusting and inexcusable. >> that should not be done and there should be rules and regulations to prevent these things. >> clearly brock turner is not the victim. >> reporter: further backlash from the sentencing will be visible in the east bay starting tomorrow. this message will be part of a rotating digital billboard. it will be off to the right side on highway 92 seen by everyone going to the peninsula. the national woman's advocacy group ultraviolet is paying to post the sign for the next four weeks, asking people to sign a petition to oust judge aaron persky, who sentenced turn tore six months in jail. >> this is not going away. and that people are sti

the petition comes after the judge chose to sentence convicted rep-- rapist brock turner to a mere sixrison. they would deliver the petitions tomorrow afternoon at the memorial service for peace going will be held in foster city tomorrow. the 27 year old was found shot to death last month he went missing in april. >> pam: phillip people charged with his murder one of them being the victims, a girl friend and mother of their two children. the service is expected to start at one in the afternoon at the central peninsula church and thousands of

a little bit more on brock turner. he will never be able to swim for usa's national team or a usa swimming sanctioned event, including the olympics as well. spokesperson for usa swimming says he's not eligible to be a member of the organization nor in the future. it's worth noting that turner was not a member of usa swimming when he committed the crime. he let his membership lapse in 2014. >>> our other top story, a lot of mixed messages in oakland. the sudden resignation of the police chief. tonight the speculation, was he forced out and what role did the mayor have? jodi hernandez is in oakland this evening. jodi, a lot of people talking there. are we getting the real story? >> reporter: raj, what everyone seems to agree on is how surprising the chief's sudden departure is. a lot of people say that they just didn't see this coming. now, the mayor insists that the chief step down voluntarily. but many say it doesn't make sense. >> last night we received the resignation of our police chief shawn went effective today. >

it doesn't address the main outcry in the brock turner case, which has been the sentencing. in the 20 days since aaron persky sentenced brock turn tore six months rather than six years in prison, there has been a push to remove him from the bench because of that perceived lenient sentence. in fact, d.a. rosen had the judge removed from another sexual assault case t. justice for victims act, yesterday, doesn't address that. instead, state bill 813 seeks to eliminate the ten year statute of investigation for rape and other sexual assaults, including the continual sexual abuse of a child, that bill has bipartisan support. meanwhile the national womens advocacy group is paying for a bay area billboard to ask for a judicial commission to take action. and a counterpetition on change.org signed by a lawyer supporting judge persky and for judicial discretion. the district attorney jeff rosen will make his comments at 10:00 here where brock turner was convicted and sentenced. we have tried to get more details on what those comments might be. when we reached out to the d.a.'s office, t

the two game to the same party, both drink too much and brock turner attacks her. two grad students find her unconscious behind a dumpster. a jury convicts turner of three felony counts. the prosecutor asks for six years in prison. the judge sentences him to six months in jail and three months probation, in line with the prosecutor's recomme-- probatio officer's recommendation. 950,000 people online trying to recall the judge. then letters in support of brock turner are revealed. some partially blaming the victim for drinking. others turning brock turner into the victim. turner's father writes in part, his life will never be the one that he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. that is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life. that letter causes its own firestorm. another message going viral. >> there's no scenario where your son should be the sympathetic figure here. he is the assailant, he is the rapist. i can't imagine as a father how gut wrenching a reality that is for you, but it is true. >> in this case, the deeply

i was a juror in the brock turner trial. the first words in his letter to judge aaron persky, a letter he also sent to the "palo alto weekly." he wrote, i was absolutely shocked and appalled at the judge's leniency. a six month sentence he gave former stanford swimmer brock turner for a sexual assault conviction. report a reporter spoke with the juror after she received the letter. >> you felt kp compelled to speak out about this. and wanted to do so in a way that would send awe strong message to the judge. >> reporter: the juror with who wants to remain anonymous recently became a citizen. >> his first time serving on a jury, disappointed with the process and the outcome. >> reporter: the juror wrote, the sentence made a mockery of the whole trial. the punishment does not fit the crime and justice has not been served. his parting words, shame on you. judge persky has yet to respond to the outrage which has taken social media by storm. he's up for reelection but is unopposed to his name did not appear on last week' balance l

. >> it is not clear how much about the sentencing backlash brock turner has heard in the santa clara county jail but he will be here for 9 next three months. we are learning new details of what led up to his sentencing. the superior court judge persky said he sentenced brock turner to only six months for the assault at stanford because of his age and lack of criminal record but the prosecution's full sentencing memo obtained by abc7 shows he had a history of harassing women and similarly aggressive with another female at a party the week before. the district attorney also said that turner lied to the judge of his drinking and partying. the information judge persky had before him when he handed down the sentence, and this is an injustice and action is demanded. all the judgment should step down or we move forward and call on all women in this valley to align with us on asking for his resignation. >> a million people appear to have joined the recall of the for judge persky. advocacy groups say they have collected that many online signatures and will deliver them to the commission on ju

the judge at the center of so much outrage over the brock turner sexual assualt ca h >>> off the case. the judge at the center of so much outrage over the brock turner sexual assault case has been removed from presiding over another sexual assault case. the santa clara d.a. saying he doesn't believe judge persky can be fair. jean elle is live at stanford with more on the move and how students on campus are taking the news. >> reporter: the district attorney says seeking a new judge is a rare move and tonight students at stanford who signed a petition asking for that judge to be completely removed from the bench say it's a good start. judge aaron persky sentenced former stanford student brock turn tore six months in jail after a jury convicted him of three felony sexual assault charges related to the assault of a 23-year-old woman on campus. the sentence drew outrage from around the world. now the santa clara county district attorney has had persky removed from a different sexual assault case. >> each side has the opportunity to use one challenge of a judge. >> reporter: legal analyst

the anger following brock turner's sentencing is not going away anytime soon. there's more backlash after someone created a brock turner family support facebook page. >> it already has more than 6,000 likes. the page's administrators claim to be turner's parents, saying their son is the real victim. but turner's attorney tells us the family is not involved in any way. >>> the mother of one of the victims of the berkeley balcony collapse will attend a hearing in sacramento today. state lawmakers are considering a new bill in light of the tragedy. ashley is one of six people who died last year when the balcony they were standing on gave way. today a senate policy committee will consider a bill that calls for increasing oversight on contractors. jackie donahoe is attending the hearing but it's not clear if she will testify. >>> developing us in right now out of southern california. this morning, baking and burning. right now there are not one but two fires burning out of control in the san gabriel mountain. combined, the flames have scorched seven square miles. no

for the first time we are hearing brock turner's plea in his written words for leniency for the judge. >> he said he appears to blame the party culture on the stanford campus. not everyone is buying what he is saying. today in the bay bob redel is live from stanford with reaction from there. >> good morning. one female student put it to us like this, she said there are plenty of students who party and drink here at stanford university who do not commit sexual assault. she like others are outraged over that letter brock turner wrote to the court before receiving his six month jail sentence. he appears to blame the so-called party culture on campus for his criminal behavior. he was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman by a dumpster after a late night fraternity party over a year ago. the former stanford swim star said the team set no limits on drinking and he saw teammates taking girls back with them after parties. >> disappointed and disgusted to see this. i hope it's making people up, certainly myself, to how real rape culture is on our campus. >> that is just one per

oakwood, ohio is the town where brock turner was raised. ent to high school and competed in sports. we talked to city officials, city employees, residents, neighbors of the turners and really everyone said because this incident happened halfway across the country, in california, there's really no up side into talking about oakwood, ohio or how it's affected this town in general. but it is turner's mother, carlene, who brought this town into her statement with the judge during that sentencing phase of the trial. i want to read you an excerpt of what she said. she writes there have been many references of brock being from a wealthy, privileged background and he thinks he is entitled. your honor, this could not be further from the truth. we do not come from money. rather the opposite. dan and i are a working middle-class couple with midwestern values. trust me when i say silicon valley, california, is vastly different from the suburbs of dayton, ohio. one woman who lived across the street from the turners where brock was raised she kind of said

clara county jail. >> reporter: from documents we learned another woman at the party identified brock turner the aggressive guy when police showed her the lineup. she said she had to get away from turner after he grabbed her waist. the judge sentenced brock to six months for the sexual assault at stanford because of his age and lack of criminal record. but the prosecution's full sentencing memo obtained by abc 7 news showed he harassed other women, showing he was also aggressive with another female at another fraternity party at another location. the evidence showed that he lied to the judge, had routinely engaged in smoking marijuana and had experimented with other drugs, specifically, acid. it is information the judge had had before him when he sentenced him. others are demanding action. >> that the judge step down, or that we move forward and call on all women in this valley to align with us in asking for his resignation. >> reporter: nearly a million people appear to have joined the recall effort. advocacy groups say they have collected those signatures and will deliver them to the judic

the vice president wrote an open letter to the brock turner victim. quote i do not know your name but i know a lot of people failed you that terrible january night and in the months that followed. david louie, abc 7 news. >>> tonight at 6:00, abc 7 news reporter amy hllyfield reports from brock turner's hometown. she was not welcomed with open arms. see what happens at 6. >>> contra costa county firefighters have put out a blaze that destroyed several structures in achbt yough over the last hour. sigh 7 hd was over crestwood drive. the fire started in vegetation along the railroad tracks and spread very quickly to homes and outbuildings nearby. the fire department says at least five structures were damaged. but the cause is still under investigation. in the north bay, heatherton street in san rafael was just reopened after a woman was hit and killed while crossing it just after 1:00 in front of the san rafael transit center. police say a dump truck hit her while she was in the crosswalk. witnesses say the victim was an elderly woman. >>> san francisco

brock turner could have faced 14 years in prison. instead he will likely spend no more than 12 weeks in the county jail. santa clara county judge, aaron persky take the heat, former captain of the stanford lacrosse team and critics say he was too soft on the star athlete. persky up for re-election this fall. so far he has no opponent. but there is a recall petition circulating to remove him from the bench. john blackstone is outside the elmwood correctional facility outside san jose. >> reporter: at his sentencing brock turner could have received 14 years in prison. instead, he got just six months here in the county jail which means he is actually likely to spend just three months behind bars. brock turner is a former stanford university swimming star, his 23-year-old victim who is not a stanford student remains anonymous. but her letter to the judge describing the emotional impact of sexual assault is finding a wide audience. you took away my worth, my privacy, m time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence. she wrote. i don't want m