So, this is blowing up the internet:
It isn't a very long story, and it's very familiar. Woman drinks too much at a party, passes out. Man proceeds to sexually assault her while unconscious.
It's also a very black-and-white case: The man was literally caught in the act by two passersby and captured by them. The woman was taken to a hospital with obvious injuries and did not recover consciousness until 3 hours later. Dude and Gal have never met before, so no relationship that the defense can use to paint this as ambiguous. Dude argues that it was consensual, which fools no one. Dude is convicted by the jury on three counts.
The judge then sentences Dude to only six months in prison, on the grounds that a longer sentence would have a "severe impact" on him. Because... prison is not supposed to have a severe impact? The impact on the victim was not severe?
The case is becoming a poster for campus sexual assault, mainly because of the aforementioned clarity, and because it is so archetypal: Dude is well-to-do, white, athletic, Stanford student, etc. Dude also refuses to admit wrongdoing to the end. Dude emphatically does not get what he deserves.
The victim, who is a badass, puts it a lot better than I do:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra