This is the most asinine, unbelievable stupidity I have heard all week. Raise your hand if you fooled around with the opposite sex when you were in High School. Yeah, that’s what I thought. me too. Thank God we are normal. Too bad lawmakers, courts and moronic juries in Georgia are not. This is totally bizarre to me.
July 20 — Only a few observers usually show up for arguments before the Georgia Supreme Court. But the gallery was packed on Friday as the seven justices heard two expedited appeals on behalf of a young man serving a mandatory 10-year sentence for having had consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a New Year’s Eve party in 2003.
The man, Genarlow Wilson, now 21, was convicted of aggravated child molestation, which was a felony in Georgia in 2003. The state legislature has since made the crime a misdemeanor.
Mr. Wilson, who was 17 at the time of the party, has served two years of the mandatory minimum sentence, which was so harsh it shocked even the jury members who convicted him. State law also requires that Mr. Wilson be listed as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The two appeals the court heard Friday dealt with whether Mr. Wilson’s sentence was constitutional and whether he is eligible for bond as his appeal moves through the legal system.
Why didn’t the girl go to jail? That would make just as much sense to me. Actually, they should throw the pet gold fish in jail too because that makes as much sense.
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