GA Court Releases Teen Oral Sex Charges

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Registered: 03-31-2007
GA Court Releases Teen Oral Sex Charges
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Fri, 10-26-2007 - 4:10pm

"Georgia Supreme Court Orders Release of Teen Sentenced for Oral Sex With Another Teen

Friday, October 26, 2007

ATLANTA — Georgia's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release a young man who was imprisoned for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.

The court ruled 4-3 that Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence was cruel and unusual punishment. Wilson was originally convicted of aggravated child molestation following a 2003 New Year's Eve party at a Douglas County hotel room where he was videotaped having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. Wilson was 17 at the time.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305396,00.html


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Registered: 02-28-2006
Fri, 10-26-2007 - 7:56pm
It's about bloody time. That sentence was a travesty. The (African-American) kid was sentenced to 10 years in jail for getting a BJ from his (white) 15 yo girlfriend at a New Year's Eve party. Wilson was headed to college at the time the alleged BJ took place. Now he's going to go through life with a felony conviction on his record.






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Registered: 03-31-2007
Fri, 10-26-2007 - 10:04pm

I agree, Steve. The whole arrest was wrong, and he has certainly had enough set backs from injustice.

It seems to me his record should be expunged.



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Registered: 07-15-2007
Fri, 10-26-2007 - 11:05pm

If this had happened in Maine he wouldn't have been charged. After all the school board there says in a 7-2 vote it's all good.