On September 6, 2016, NBC News reported that Brock Turner has registered as a Tier III sex offender, the most serious classification, in Greene County, Ohio just a few days after his release from jail.
He is further required to re-register sex offender status four times a year, every 90 days, for the remainder of his life.
“He’s court-ordered to follow the laws for the registering and checking in and that’s what he does – he comes in, tells us what he’s doing. We register him, enter him into the system and he comes back in every three months,” the Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer told The Daily Mail.
“We’ve not done anything special for Mr. Turner. Everybody registers in front of the window down there where everybody can see in. He’s come in, does what he’s supposed to do and moves on,” added Sheriff Fischer.
In December 2017, Turner appealed to a California appeals court in December 2019 to overturn his conviction. However, the three-judge panel rejected his appeal in August 2018 and concurred with the original conviction citing that Turner’s arguments about his conviction being made on insufficient evidence “lacked merit”.
“We are not persuaded. While it is true that the defendant did not expose himself, he was interrupted,” Associate Justice Franklin D. Elia wrote in the ruling as reported by The New York Times.
