As reported by the Sacramento Bee:

Building on their response to a Stanford swimmer’s sexual assault conviction, California lawmakers on Monday announced legislation to broaden the state’s definition of rape.

Much of the uproar around the case of Brock Turner, found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, has focused on his sentencing after the student received a six-month jail term that was significantly lighter than what prosecutors sought. California legislators have pushed to remove the judge who issued that sentence.

Now those same legislators want to expand California’s definition of rape from the current standard, which requires sexual intercourse, to encompass penetration that occurs without consent. Turner was specifically convicted of sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object, not of rape. …