CBS4 Investigation Finds Controversial Rape Sentence Not Unusual

By Brian Maass and Mark Ackerman
BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) – When Boulder District Court Judge Patrick Butler sentenced a convicted rapist to 20 years of probation and two years of work release, a public outcry followed calling the sentence for Austin Wilkerson “lenient” and “a slap on the wrist.”
Upwards of 82,000 people signed an online petition to have the judge recalled. They were incensed because Butler did not send Wilkerson to prison.
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