{"id":3789,"date":"2007-10-29T08:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T15:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/29\/genarlow-wilson-is-freed-by-georgia-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T08:05:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T15:25:46","slug":"genarlow-wilson-is-freed-by-georgia-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3789","title":{"rendered":"Genarlow Wilson Is Freed By Georgia Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice delayed is better than none at all, I guess. From <a href=\"http:\/\/feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu\/?p=2481\">Feminist Law Professors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today the Georgia Supreme Court ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson.&nbsp; Wilson was sentenced to 11 years in prison (with a mandatory 10-year sentence) for receiving, at a time when he was 17,&nbsp;oral sex from a 15-year old girl.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Georgia legislature subsequently changed to 12 months the maximum sentence available in similar cases involving consensual sex acts between teens.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wilson\u2019s successful&nbsp;Petition for Writ of Certiorari is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilsonappeal.com\/certiorari.html\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; A copy of the Court\u2019s decision is <a href=\"http:\/\/alt.coxnewsweb.com\/ajc\/pdf\/gwilson.pdf\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; For news reports, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=15657053\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/stories\/2007\/10\/26\/genarlow_1026.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wilson has been in jail for 21 months.<\/p>\n<p>-Bridget Crawford<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/genarlow-wilson-is-freed.html\">this post on The Debate Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Holland calls this <a href=\"http:\/\/francislholland.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/genarlow-wilson-freed-in-another.html\">&#8220;a victory for the afrosphere.&#8221;<\/a> I don&#8217;t know enough about the Georgia Supreme Court to know if this is true, but I&#8217;d certainly like it to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, conservatives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentconservative.com\/2007\/10\/26\/jesse_jackson_blasphemes\/\">have their own spin<\/a> on the Wilson case.<\/p>\n<p>(I previously blogged about Wilson&#8217;s case <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/12\/genarlow-wilson-wins-in-court-but-attorney-general-appeals\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice delayed is better than none at all, I guess. From Feminist Law Professors: Today the Georgia Supreme Court ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson.&nbsp; Wilson was sentenced to 11 years in prison (with a mandatory 10-year sentence) for receiving, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}