Brock Turner Argumentative Analysis

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The question of if justice exits has been debated for a long time. According to Claire Coleman, a writer for the Odyssey, justice was not served in the case of Brock Turner. Turner was a popular, nineteen-year-old with a promising future on the Stanford swim team. Turner was convicted of three rape felonies. There was a witness of the scene and the victims' DNA was found on Turner and Turner’s semen was found in the victims' body (Coleman). After being convicted of three rape felonies, he could have been in prison for up to fourteen years, but he only served about six months in a county jail because the judge thought that “a longer sentence would have a severe impact on him” (Coleman). What about the severe impact he had on the victim? Is that

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