Brock Turner, convicted of sexual assault, asks for new trial

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The former Stanford University swimmer who was convicted last year of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman — and spent only three months in jail — is appealing his convictions and requesting a new trial.
Lawyers for Brock Turner filed an appeal Friday with California’s 6th District Court of Appeal, claiming their client was denied due process during his 2016 trial and calling it “fundamentally unfair.”
Turner was charged a