High Court Frees Wilson
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Supreme Court ordered Genarlow Wilson released from prison today after ruling that his 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager is cruel and unusual punishment.
The 21-year-old Wilson has served more than two years in prison.
The state’s highest court reached the decision after a split 4-to-3 vote.
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The state Supreme Court had turned down Wilson’s appeal of his conviction and sentence, but the justices agreed to hear the state’s appeal of a Monroe County judge’s decision to reduce Wilson’s sentence to 12 months and free him. The Monroe County judge had called the 10-year sentence a “grave miscarriage of justice.” (more…)
Based on the Monroe County judge’s comment, I say a lawsuit is in order
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