… the lighter sentence was recommended and granted because probation officials said he had no prior criminal record, and they said they believed that he was genuinely remorseful, so they advised the court [to] go easy on him, according to prosecution and defense sentencing memos.

Turner, 20, was convicted of three felony charges in late March: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object.

And he was given a six-month sentence.