Posted on 06/11/2007 11:05:28 AM PDT by John Cena
ATLANTA — A Georgia judge on Monday voided a 10-year sentence given to a man who was convicted while a teenager of having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Monroe County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson voided Genarlow Wilson's sentence and dropped it to misdemeanor aggravated child molestation with a 12-month sentence, plus credit for time served. Under the new ruling, he will not be required to register as a sex offender
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I agree.
No other kids has been sentenced this way...plenty of 17 year old white boys have had sex with their girlfriends. This kid got slammed because he was black, and she was white. This is just plain wrong. It is inconceivable to me that you would want this boy to rot in jail while the law is changed.
“OJ wasn’t convicted either.
So acquittal doesn’t mean innocence.”
Yeah, but it doesn’t mean guilty either.
Either way.. what does that have to do with this case?
The kid got caught having consensual sex in a school trailer as I recall...after school was out. No-it was not forced rape.
The other 5 plead guilty and were sentenced to as much as 6 yrs. The crime is on videotape.
That's exactly what we DO have. That's why each person charged is a separate CASE. Our system uses people, in the form of prosecutors, judges and juries, to apply the law in the expectation that they can see the difference between two teens getting it on and an adult taking advantage of a youth. What one can expect to know is the range of penalty ones offense can carry.
What would you prefer? That sentences were handed out by a look-up chart in a computer database?
I have heard that;it is completely untrue.
The law is there on the books and I can go to the library and look it up. The judges are bound to apply the law as it is written. Thus, I can make rational, reasoned decisions based on what are rational expectations of the workings of the judicial system.
In your world, however, all of that goes away and we are replaced with a system of “good reason.” One cannot possibly be expected to make rational, reasoned decision when he has no expectation of the consequences whatsoever. It is plain bad policy, and I note that even you are having trouble defending it.
I have no problem defending it. It is a modern version of virtue ethics and my arguments are basically Aristotelian. Perhaps you do not fully understand my responses. To you it probably sounds like I am saying that the only way you can fix your computer is to use good reason and judgment. Your problem, and you don't see it, is that you have a twisted definition of justice and the rule of law. Neither of which is your computer. See #96.
This is a msg board not a court of law, its matters to me so Im stating my opinion.
“Either way.. what does that have to do with this case?”
Its the same person were talking about.
There, I think that about does that
We already know that, almost, all hormonal teenagers are idiots..
It stil can’t factor into sentencing for another crime.
Seems everyone wants to put it aside because he wasn’t convicted despite video of him having intercourse with an intoxicated, drugged 17 yr old. The other 5 suspects plead guilty to that crime.
“The other 5 plead guilty and were sentenced to as much as 6 yrs. The crime is on videotape.”
A lot of inocent people plead guilty to lesser charges in order to escape harsher sentences.
And yes.. it’s on videotape, and according to a friend of the girl who was allegedly raped, she did not say “no” to having sex at any time.
True, but it can factor into my opinion
being as it holds no legal authority.
“Its the same person were talking about.”
So you feel a ten year sentence is justified for this because he was acquitted of a separate crime?
Intercourse does not automatically equal rape.
Yes he was acquitted and oj was found innocent. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It is on tape. The other 5 suspects plead guilty to the crime.
No, if you scroll up I stated the sentence was excessive.
But it does lessen my sympathy for him considerably.
“Seems everyone wants to put it aside because he wasn’t convicted despite video of him having intercourse with an intoxicated, drugged 17 yr old.”
Wow... teenagers getting drunk and high and having sex. Who would have believed it?
I agree-I don’t think immorality should be punished by 10 years in prison.
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