STANFORD. Brock Turner. And The News Black Out.

It is my opinion that Brock Turner has been a pawn in a high stakes game for a #MeToo cause, and now it appears for significant monetary motivations as well. I believe it will become clear over the next many months that Brock Turner was wrongly convicted, and that he faced multiple due process injustices from the outset.

I realize these are bold statements to make but I come to these conclusions after:

  1. Researching court documents and reviewing facts,
  2. Following the trail of an endless harassment and mis-information campaign,
  3. Examining what Brock’s attorney did and did not do,
  4. Coming to a realization that the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office appears to be unethical and unprincipled,
  5. Reading about a pre-trial hearing in the judge’s chambers that set limits on what evidence could and couldn’t be heard, and learning how the 13th Motion in Limine took away Brock’s effective defense, to say nothing of the missing evidence, evidence that was withheld until the last minute, the undermining of Brock’s only expert witnesses and other actions and inactions before, during and after the trial.

Some surprising facts regarding Brock Turner, based on the evidence I have seen:

  • Emily Doe never said she was raped and there was no evidence whatsoever of rape. But the DA and prosecutor intentionally kept the rape charges pending for a full nine months, (DNA lab results  were finally disclosed nine months after the samples were collected) until just before the preliminary hearing, so the case could be characterized as a “rape case” and the media taglines ever since could (wrongfully) refer to it as “the Stanford rape case” and Brock as “the Stanford rapist.”
  • Brock’s DNA was not found on Emily Doe’s underwear nor on her.
  • Emily Doe says she has no memory. It increasingly appears she was in what medical authorities call a blackout state, and where a person in a blackout state appears to be functioning perfectly well to third parties (here, to Brock and the others at the party).
  • Legal authorities thought Brock should not have been charged. Having been charged, the legal standard was that he must have known, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Emily Doe was incapacitated. But in a blackout state, there would be no such appearance to Brock, or anyone else for that matter. Brock Turner’s BAC was a .17, twice the legal limit. He himself was near blackout, which raises the question:
  • Why did Turner’s attorney (Armstrong) fail to raise the Voluntary Intoxication Defense?
  • A Stanford law professor has been engaged in an ongoing false information campaign against Brock.
  • Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office distorted the case and may have engaged in other inappropriate actions.
  • There is a Santa Clara news media blackout.

There are two sides to every story. For years the public has only been privy to one side of the story: the accuser’s side. She was Emily Doe, recently revealed to be Chanel Miller as part of Ms. Miller’s pending book tour.  But there were always two people involved, Ms. Miller and Mr. Turner. Why aren’t we privy to Mr. Turner’s story? I think now is the time to take a deep dive into the untold story of a Stanford professor and the professor’s relationship with Ms. Miller and Ms. Miller’s family. And to look into the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and the DA who wants to be the next State Attorney General.

My deep dive is only the beginning, but the evidence is starting to present a case showing that the Turner family was an unknowing pawn in a tangled political and #MeToo publicity storm, and now a plan to make a lot of money, all of which created a miscarriage of due process and injustice for a young 19-year old, Brock Turner.

In beginning my deep dive to understand,  my journey began by reading the public documents that Santa Clara County Superior Court released. And from there I unearthed a great amount of information that was purposely kept from the public. (Remember the Santa Clara news blackout.) I’ve only begun to piece together the injustices and unimaginable torment that has been following the Turner family since 2015.

But from the documents I am reading, I believe that politics, money, greed, celebrity, book deals, movie deals, victim status, egos, news black outs, and campaign career moves have been at play from the very beginning.  And a student new to Stanford on a scholarship from a middle-income family in Ohio named Brock Turner was a sacrificial lamb. And everyone at Stanford, in the Bay Area and nationwide stood back in silence, even when they knew the truth and the injustices that were taking place.

This is the first post in a series. These are my personal opinions.

-Alice True

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