Lawyer Says Client's Attempted Rape Conviction Must Be Overturned Because He Only Intended To Dry Hump Victim

This is certainly a new defense for rape.

Brock Turner

I absolutely don’t understand what you are talking about.

— Justice Franklin D. Elia of the California Sixth District Court of Appeal, in response to Eric Multhaup, the lawyer for former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, when told that Turner’s conviction ought to be overturned because he only intended to have “outercourse” with his victim.


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