Genarlow Wilson's Tragic Sentencing for Consensual Oral Sex

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

GA's Attorney General should get a nice swift round house kick in the brain stem

Following w/ Robert's rules:

I second!

[UGAalum94]

I think the biggest factor in the comparison presented is the willingness of the teacher to plea bargain.

If you have the kind of proof against you that they did in this case and you don't deal and insist on trial, you're choosing to put your life in the hands of a judge and/or jury (ETA: actually minimum sentencing guidelines, rather than either) because I don't think you can usually expect the prosecutor or judge to see justice for you once you're convicted as something lighter than the offer that you turned down. After you're convicted of the charge that earns the minimum sentence, a lot of hands are tied.

I'd be glad if the guy were released because the sentence was excessive, but don't forget he was actually guilty of a crime/crimes, and that he (and his lawyer, I guess) chose to gamble at trial with a crime that carried this minimum sentence.

We can all feel like he wasn't really a child molester, but as the law was written, he was.

[jitterbug13]

There's already a thread on this somewhere in this forum.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

There's already a thread on this somewhere in this forum.

It was locked not long after it started.

[jitterbug13]

That's right.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

That's right.

I did a search on the topic and it was in the DST forum....so, I didn't want to step on any toes thus I posted here...but thank you for your diligence......

[KDAngel]

This story continues to amaze me. I signed the official petition online to release the guy ago. But, just last week I went a Senate mtg where this was being discussed (well, before the session anyway) and pretty much everyone thought it was ridiculous. The poor guy. Seriously.