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Brock Turner, 20,
was arrested in January 2015, after two men riding bikes saw him
on top of an unconscious woman lying on the ground, the Times
said, citing the police report.
The two men said Turner jumped off the woman and fled when they
spotted him, according to the newspaper.
Turner and the woman had attended the same fraternity party that
evening and both were intoxicated, according to the report. The
victim was found passed out behind a dumpster, it said.
"Drunk means no. Passed out means no," Santa Clara District
Attorney Jeff Rosen said, according to the San Jose Mercury
News.
Turner had pleaded not guilty to three felony charges of sexual
assault. He said the woman, then 22, was conscious throughout
their encounter, the Mercury News reported.
The victim testified she woke in the hospital and had dried
blood on her hands and elbows.
Turner, a freshman when he was arrested, voluntarily withdrew
from school after he was charged. He faces up to 10 years in
prison.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has called campus sexual assault
an epidemic. The White House launched a task force to address
the issue in 2014.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in New York)
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