Batey vs Turner - 2 completely different outcomes for rape

I'm not one to easily jump on the white privilege or the "affluenza" band wagon and assume the worst. It is incredibly difficult to ignore in the Turner case. I can't see it any other way.

Yes, it's often about class privilege.  However, Batey was a college athlete as well. Being good at a sport automatically gives people privilege and bumps them up in to the upper classes most of the time.  

we still have issues with class privilege but when you control for income level, the non-white defendants still get longer sentences.  And then how about the fact that studies have shown over and over again that if you aren't white it's much harder to move out of the income class you were born into keeping these kids poor and underprivileged.

As much as I would very much like it not to be, race is still very much an issue in this country.

The (lack of) sentencing to punish Brock Turner for his "20 minutes of action" is reprehensible from every perspective.

I am utterly appalled at the sentencing of Turner - so please don't misunderstand this as any sort of justification for his slap on the wrist (which is what he received!). In the article it sounds like there was sufficient evident to charge and convict Batey with rape (they mention video records so I assume there was actual proof). If we're going to look at sentencing differences, I don't think you can compare convicted rape with intent to commit rape (which was what Turner was ultimately convicted of as they couldn't prove rape). It also helped tremendously that there was MANDATORY sentencing - which was not the case in California. There are a million and one instances of unfair sentencing - I'm just not sure this is actually a good example.