You can untwist your panties...
Down thread it was explained to me the rape, different from sexually assault, charge was dropped because she could not under oath say he penetrated her...
If you look up the California penal code, rape falls under the sexual assault code, but with much more severe penalties...
He received the sentence under the sexually assault code, which made me wonder why, since he raped her...
Because he didn't "rape" her. From an article:
Turner, 20, was found guilty of three felony sexual assault counts for the January 2015 attack; he was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. The two formal charges of rape under California state law were dropped at the preliminary hearing.
The "foreign object" to my understanding were his fingers. They were both trashed. They were making out and then she passed out/blacked out. They couldn't charge him with rape because he didn't rape her.