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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4925
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 01:09 pm: | 
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Some of our laws are just stupid! Sending this young man to prison and letting child molesters, rapists and murderers be on probation and parole, or get off with no sentence at all.
Judge orders Genarlow Wilson freed
Served over 2 years of 10-year sentence for oral sex with underage teen
By JEREMY REDMON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/11/07
A judge today ordered that Genarlow Wilson be freed from prison, where he has spent more than two years for receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.
Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson also amended Wilson's felony conviction to a misdemeanor without the requirement that he register as a sex offender.
Wilson's lawyer, B.J. Bernstein, appealed to a judge Wednesday to free him from prison, arguing that his 10-year prison sentence and inclusion on the state's sex offender registry is grossly disproportionate and violates the Constitution.
Bernstein also pointed to how the Legislature changed the law since Wilson's conviction to make similar acts a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of one year in prison. Wilson, now 21, has been locked up for more than two years.
"It truly is cruel and unusual punishment," Bernstein told reporters last week. "It is wrong when the Legislature has passed the law to make this a misdemeanor with no sex offender registry [requirement] and instead the state is trying to keep this young man in prison for 10 years and on the sex offender registry."
Paula K. Smith, senior assistant attorney general, opposed Wilson's petition. She told the judge the change in law does not apply to Wilson's case.
"The General Assembly passed a statute. They did not make it retroactive," Smith said. "It was their prerogative to do so. They did not. The courts of Georgia have not."
The attorney general's office had no immediate comment on judge Wilson's order this morning. A Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman said Wilson would "ideally" be released from prison within the next 48 hours.
Wilson was originally charged with raping a 17-year-old at a party on New Year's Eve of 2003, but he was acquitted. He was ultimately found guilty of aggravated child molestation involving the 15-year-old girl. Four other male youths at the party pleaded guilty to child molestation of the 15-year-old and sexual battery of the 17-year-old. A fifth pleaded guilty to false imprisonment.
Their party was captured on a profanity-laden and sexually graphic video filmed by one of the five. The video shows Wilson receiving oral sex from the 15-year-old. Wilson's appeal was filed in Forsyth because he is being held there in the Burruss Correctional Training Center. The state attorney general's office is representing Burruss Warden Paul Humphrey in the appeal.
Wilson's case has attracted national media attention, from TV shows "Good Morning America" to "The O'Reilly Factor." Several influential people are going to bat for him, including former President Jimmy Carter. Carter wrote Attorney General Thurbert Baker last month in support of Wilson's petition, citing the "disproportionate nature" of his punishment.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2007/06/11/0611wilson.html
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4650
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 01:18 pm: |
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I hope this kid can get his life back on track but he was acting like a little beast running a train on that girl--I had thought kids were smarter these days. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2249
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 02:02 pm: |
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"Some of our laws are just stupid! Sending this young man to prison and letting child molesters, rapists and murderers be on probation and parole, or get off with no sentence at all."
This is so true. It makes no sense yet these archaic laws that exist outside of reality and commonsense still exist. Unfortunately, often times people like Genarlow Wilson fall prey to theses laws while the police, judges and prosecutors who sent him there, frequently indulge in the exact same behavior -with same and opposite sex partners!!!!!
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4652
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 03:42 pm: |
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Technically Genarlow was a rapist, too--all the girl would have had to do is say she didn't want to do all those guys just one. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4939
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 04:07 pm: |
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Looks like this case is going to drag on some more.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/11/teen.sex.case/index.html
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Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2250
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 05:20 pm: |
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Sigh.....How pathetic. Since the defense attorneys rejected the offer, I guess Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker has determined the public is better served and more safe because this young man is in jail for getting a blow job. You can now move about your community freely and rest easier at night knowing a BJ resulted in imprisonment for a salacious young man headed down a criminal path.
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8814
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 08:00 pm: |
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I can't believe chrishayden isn't defending this young man, isn't launching into a maudlin solilolquy declaring him to be the scapegoat of white racism and victim of Bill Cosby "types". snort. |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2253
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 - 09:38 pm: |
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"I can't believe chrishayden isn't defending this young man, isn't launching into a maudlin solilolquy declaring him to be the scapegoat of white racism and victim of Bill Cosby "types". snort."
He will.......
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Sabiana
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Username: Sabiana
Post Number: 119
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 01:04 am: |
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You know, I can't help thinking if the roles were reversed, if the young man had been "white", and the young woman would have been "black", if the young man had served any jail time at all. I don't think it would have even been brought to trial. |
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 9380
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 07:25 am: |
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If the boy were 15 years old and the girl 17 would SHE have been arrested for, convicted of and incarcerated for a sex crime? |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 2271
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 09:25 am: |
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If you think THAT's some psychotic shyt.
There was a case a while ago of a young black male, 18, who was convicted of "raping" a white female, under 18.
He was eventually freed because people kept working on his behalf (it probably didn't hurt that his adoptive parents were white.)
Basically, the guy was the girl's boyfriend at age 17 and they were seeing each other pretty regularly. When he turned 18....you guessed it....her parents had charged him with rape.
You see: when he was a minor they felt there was nothing they could do to put him in jail...but when he turned 18.... |
Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 2256
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 12:19 pm: |
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"If the boy were 15 years old and the girl 17 would SHE have been arrested for, convicted of and incarcerated for a sex crime?"
Uhhhhhhh.....not hardly......
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4655
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 12:41 pm: |
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If he had used my daughter the way he did I would castrate him. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8816
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 01:13 pm: |
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Of course you would, chrishayden, because you are a "cafeteria Christian", picking and choosing what aspects of redemption you choose to adhere to. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4940
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 01:47 pm: |
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Chrissie's daughter gives blowjobs  |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4660
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 03:18 pm: |
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Hey Manzuri:
Did you forget to feed granny her Alpo today? |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4941
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 03:22 pm: |
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What are you getting mad at me for. It's not my fault that your daughter is a cocksucker.
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8819
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 05:44 pm: |
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And so is he. LMAO. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4672
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 02:31 pm: |
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Somebody tell me this fool ain't the same person. See how they keep piling in on top of each other? |
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