(08:55) SACRAMENTO – California lawmakers are considering two pieces of legislation aiming to strengthen penalties against those convicted of sexual assault. AB 2888 and AB 701 have been introduced in response to the weak penalty against Stanford student Brock Turner, who was recently sentenced to six months in jail for raping an unconscious woman. The first piece of legislation aims to close a loophole in current law that makes a convicted sex offender eligible for probation if their victim was unconscious at the time of the attack. The second bill seeks to expand the definition of rape to include forced penetration of any body part with any foreign object. If the bills are signed into law, those convicted of raping an unconscious or intoxicated person will be automatically subject to a minimum three year prison sentence and ineligible for probation. (S.G.)
