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Originally Posted by LPIDelta
That poor kids life was put on hold, if not ruined, because of this nonsense sentancing. He was doing with another teeneager consenually what some teenagers do and ended up going to prison for it. Such a shame!!!!
And the dissent opinion seems to ignore the fact that the law was changed in 2006 because of this case, retroactive or not.
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they didn't ignore it but they purposefully made it so that it wouldn't be retroactive due to the fear that it would let out a lot of child molesters prematurely also.
Thanks to Thurbert Baker (Ga. Atty General)
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