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This "No Freedom" thing was a huge BANNER headline on today's Atlanta paper. The "Get Genarlow Out of Jail" campaign rivals the crusade several years ago to get women into the Masters tournament in nearby Augusta.

The actual facts of Genarlow's case include a rejected offer of a plea bargain before he was ever sentenced as well as a continued rejection of a plea bargain in order to get a reduced sentence now. The Georgia AG explained it in a tiny little article tucked away in today's paper. The thing is that this punk and his dumbass mama, along with all the "civil rights" crowd, figure that every kid does a videotaped orgy on New Year's Eve, so why single out one guy just because one of his party partners was only 15 years old? Naturally, the AJC editorialists and "news" writers share this viewpoint.

1 posted on 06/12/2007 1:32:24 PM PDT by madprof98
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So you think that a 17 year old having consensual sex with a 15 year old should be a felony? And that a 10 year prison sentence is appropriate? Nobody’s saying that what he did was classy or particularly admirable, but ten years?


2 posted on 06/12/2007 1:34:51 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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Also I’m having trouble following your argument. In what way is Mr. Wilson a punk? I thought he was an honor student and a star football player with zero criminal record. I don’t approve of his actions, but I just don’t see how anybody is better off with him in prison — whether for one day or for ten years. Also, what do you mean by the Civil Rights Crowd? Is that a euphemism for black people?


7 posted on 06/12/2007 1:44:36 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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"I just got off the phone with him," B.J. Bernstein...

The lawyer representing the kid who was imprisoned for oral sex is named BJ? Oh, the irony! :0)

25 posted on 06/12/2007 2:01:34 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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The legal issue in this case would appear not to have anything to do with whether this young punk deserves to be in jail or out on the streets, but whether the Monroe County, Georgia, Superior court has jurisdiction, in a civil case, to overturn a sentence handed down by the Douglas County Superior Court in a criminal case.

Any Georgia lawyers lurking about?

47 posted on 06/12/2007 2:20:25 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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So if you don’t think you committed a crime, why plead guilty.

I have no doubt the other 4 were threatened with plead guilty to the lesser charge or we will take it to trial. They took their chance with the plea bargain.

If there was a video of this party, I would think that would be the proof the rape occurred. I don’t understand why he was acquitted of the charge.


54 posted on 06/12/2007 2:27:13 PM PDT by art_rocks
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Is my memory correct that the 15 year old is caucasian and Wilson is black? If so, I’m surprised that the usual suspects (Jesse and Al) aren’t screaming for release,too.


57 posted on 06/12/2007 2:31:51 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("You just killed a helicopter with a car!" "I know. I was out of bullets.")
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In other news...

Mary Winkler guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the March 2006 killing of her minister husband, Matthew. Judge gives her only 60 days in mental hospital............................

Mary Winkler gets 60 days in mental hospital..

 

65 posted on 06/12/2007 2:37:34 PM PDT by Search4Truth (Hosea 4:6 warns, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:...)
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The actual facts of Genarlow's case include a rejected offer of a plea bargain before he was ever sentenced as well as a continued rejection of a plea bargain in order to get a reduced sentence now.

That's the crime that got Genarlow a 10 year sentence. This uppity negro attempted to exercise his constitutional right to a trial instead of taking whatever punishment the state unilaterally offered him! The district attorney himself said, verbatim, that Genarlow "decided to become a martyr" when he rejected the plea bargain.

69 posted on 06/12/2007 2:48:06 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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Update
>>Teen sex case sentence goes to high court
From Times Wire Reports
June 15, 2007

The state Supreme Court agreed to hear the state’s arguments for keeping in prison a man who had consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

Atty. Gen. Thurbert E. Baker has been criticized for appealing a state judge’s decision to void Genarlow Wilson’s 10-year sentence but said in Atlanta that he had no choice under the law. The Superior Court judge had no authority to reduce or modify the trial court’s sentence, he said.

Wilson, now 21, has served more than 28 months in prison. A jury convicted him in 2005 of aggravated child molestation for having oral sex with the girl at a 2003 party. Although the sex was consensual, it was illegal under Georgia law. <<


91 posted on 06/15/2007 7:34:15 AM PDT by gondramB (Do not do to others as you would not wish done to yourself. Thus no murmuring will rise against you.)
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