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Yes. Brock Turner got six months for rape. Here's a selection of decade+ prison sentences for marijuana: https://www.boulderdefenseattorney.com/top-10-non-viol

• koolba 6y ago
  The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced. Skimming through your link, I don’t see anything involving someone with a single joint being incarcerated for anywhere near a rape charge. Some of those sentences may be out of line on their own, but you also don’t have people being put away for 20 years for being caught smoking a joint.
  • danaris 6y ago
    > The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced. Do you have evidence that it is not commonly how rape cases against affluent white men are prosecuted or sentenced?
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      Well, sure, it's an outlier in such cases because it was prosecuted at all. But that's probably the opposite direction that the claim upthread meant to imply.
  • aardvark291 6y ago
    > The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced. Indeed, my understanding is that rape is typically not prosecuted at all. :-/
  • 8ytecoder 6y ago
    Only 33% of the cases even result in an arrest [1] and 6 in 1000 cases actually result in jail time. That only 384/1000 are even reported to police shows what people think their options are in getting justice. (US is not an exception by any means.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Prosecution_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#Pros...