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Image copyright Reuters Image caption Brock Turner was seen by two other students sexually assaulting the woman in 2016 
  
 A lawyer for a former US student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has launched an appeal to have the ruling overturned. 
  
 Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in 2016 for assaulting the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house a year earlier. 
  
 The sentencing judge was widely criticised for leniency and removed from office by voters in June. 
  
 On Tuesday, his lawyer argued there had been insufficient evidence to convict. 
  
 Turner, a champion swimmer, was found guilty of three felony charges. 
  
 His lawyer Eric Multhaup told justices at a California appeals court that there was no evidence to prove at what point the woman became unconscious, US media report. 
  
 He said the jury had had to "speculate" and had "filled in the blanks" to reach their conclusion. 
  
 Mr Multhaup described his client's actions as "outercourse", meaning a sexual act while clothed, as opposed to intent to rape. 
  
 Deputy Attorney General Alisha Carlile argued that there had been "ample" evidence for the convictions. 
  
 The appeals court judges appeared sceptical of Mr Multhaup's arguments, the Associated Press news agency reported. They are expected to reach their decision within 90 days. 
  
 Turner, 22, was not present during Tuesday's hearing. 
  
 Although prosecutors had sought a six-year term, Turner was sentenced to six months and released after serving only three. He was placed on the sex-offenders register for life. 
  
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Anger at the sentence sparked a campaign to have Judge Aaron Persky recalled 
  
 The case sparked a debate in the US about sexual assault and whether white men from wealthy backgrounds are treated more favourably by courts. 
  
 Outrage at the sentencing was compounded by a letter from Turner's father saying his son's life would "never be the one that he dreamed about... a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life". 
  
 The victim, who has remained anonymous, directly addressed Turner in court and made a moving impact statement that was widely read online. 
  
 Judge Aaron Persky was later removed from his post by voters in Santa Clara County following a campaign to unseat him. 
  
 He said he had no regrets about the case and had been bound by sentencing and probation guidelines. 
  
 Judge Persky was cleared of misconduct by the California Commission on Judicial Performance. ||||| SAN JOSE — A lawyer for a former Stanford swimmer whose conviction on sexual assault charges led to the extremely rare recall of a judge tried to convince an appellate court Tuesday to overturn his client’s conviction — on the novel grounds that the athlete wanted “outercourse” with his intoxicated victim, not intercourse. 
  
 “Outercourse,” his lawyer Eric S. Multhaup explained to the three poker-faced justices, is sexual contact while fully clothed. Turner had his clothes on when he was caught by two Swedish graduate students making thrusting motions on top of a half-naked, intoxicated, unconscious woman, his lawyer noted. 
  
 The hearing is the latest development in a high-profile case that led last month to the recall of the judge, who gave Turner what many considered a lenient six-month jail sentence for the sexual assault outside a campus fraternity party in 2015. It was the first time in 86 years that voters have recalled a judge in California. 
  
 Although Turner wound up serving only three months, he is required under a state law to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life because of his conviction on the charge of attempting to rape an intoxicated person. The jury also found Turner guilty of two counts of digital penetration. He has moved back to Ohio and was not at Tuesday’s hearing. 
  
 Multhaup focused Tuesday on trying to convince the justices to overturn the attempted rape charge, arguing there wasn’t sufficient evidence for the jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Turner never intended to rape the woman, he said. 
  
 But the justices appeared skeptical of his argument. The panel has 90 days — until late October — to issue a ruling. 
  
 “I absolutely don’t understand what you are talking about,” Justice Franklin D. Elia said, adding that the law “requires the jury verdict to be honored.” 
  
 “We are not in a position to say (of the jury), you should have gone a different way.” 
  
 Justice Adrienne Grover tried to clarify Multhaup’s argument. “You’re saying (the jury) made unreasonable inferences?” 
  
 “Yes!” Multhaup said. ”They filled in the blanks.” 
  
 But Elia didn’t seem to buy it. 
  
 Related Articles Brock Turner: Justices reject ‘outercourse’ argument, upholds conviction “Intent is rarely proved by direct evidence,” he said, noting that it’s typically based on circumstantial evidence. “You can’t surgically remove things and look at them separately.” 
  
 Assistant Attorney General Alisha Carlile didn’t mince words. She argued that Multhaup had presented a “far-fetched version of events” that didn’t support the facts of the case. 
  
 The Stanford law school professor who led the campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky said Turner had a chance to make that argument at trial, but did not. 
  
 “Now, he has a brand new story,” Michele Dauber said in a phone interview Tuesday, contending that Turner, who testified in his own defense, lied on the stand. “It’s inappropriate to ask the appeals court to substitute its judgment for the jury.” ||||| Brock Turner leaves the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, Calif., on Sept. 2, 2016. (Photo: Dan Honda, AP) 
  
 Lawyers for Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer whose conviction and sentencing cast a national spotlight on treatment of sexual assault cases, sought a new trial Tuesday before a three-judge panel in San Jose, California. 
  
 The judges should rule on the request within 90 days. 
  
 In papers filed in December, his lawyers said the initial trial was “a detailed and lengthy set of lies.” Although Turner has been released from jail, a new trial could help overturn his mandatory lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender. 
  
 Turner, 22, was convicted in March 2016 of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person and related charges stemming from an attack outside a Stanford fraternity in January 2015. 
  
 The victim, identified as Emily Doe, read an emotional 7,000-word statement during the sentencing detailing the impact to her life and the horror of the 2015 attack. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner, who could have faced 14 years in prison, to six months behind bars. 
  
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 The sentencing outraged victims' rights advocates. And Turner served only about half of that time due to good behavior in jail. 
  
 The victim statement, however, quickly went viral, drawing more than 10 million views within four days and resonating with thousands of sexual assault survivors across the nation. 
  
 The state legislature noticed, and later that year Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that toughens penalties for attacks on unconscious victims. 
  
 Last month, Persky became the first California jurist recalled from the bench in 86 years. 
  
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Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting a woman outside a 2015 campus party, wasn't interested in intercourse but rather "outercourse," his lawyer claims. Eric S. Multhaup—who's hoping to overturn Turner's conviction for the attempted rape of an intoxicated person, which came with a lifelong requirement to register as a sex offender in addition to a three-month prison stay—argued Tuesday that Turner was seeking fully clothed sexual contact when he was found thrusting on a half-naked, unconscious woman. Per USA Today, Multhaup appeared before a three-judge panel in San Jose, claiming that Turner had his clothes on and never intended to rape his victim. The "poker-faced justices ... appeared skeptical of his argument," reports the San Jose Mercury News. Indeed, Justice Franklin D. Elia announced, "I absolutely don't understand what you are talking about." Multhaup went on to argue that the jury had insufficient evidence to convict—he said it was unclear when the intoxicated victim known as Emily Doe fell unconscious—and improperly "filled in the blanks" in the case, per the BBC. "Intent is rarely proved by direct evidence," Elia responded, citing reliance on circumstantial evidence, per the Mercury News. "We are not in a position to say [of the jury], you should have gone a different way," he added, while Deputy Attorney General Alisha Carlile said there was "ample" evidence to convict. Turner, 22, lives in Ohio and wasn't present for the hearing, which follows the June ousting of his sentencing judge. A ruling is expected by late October.