Word: genarlow
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...GENARLOW WILSON, who was released from prison on Oct. 26, after spending more than two years behind bars for having consensual oral sex as a teenager...
High school homecoming king Genarlow Wilson walked out of prison a free man on Friday, thanks to an extraordinary intervention by the Georgia Supreme Court. In ordering his immediate release, the court ruled that his 10-year prison term - which allowed no parole and included lifetime registration as a sex offender - was "cruel and unusual...
...year, when leaders in the state Senate refused to hold hearings on a bill that would have set him free. In an op-ed he must surely regret now, Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson defended the legislature's failure to act. "Life comes with accountability for our decisions. Genarlow Wilson could have selected different friends to hang with...
There have also been other high profile cases in which discrimination has seemed to play a role. In 2005, Shaquanda Cotton, a 16-year-old girl from Texas, was sentenced to serve up to seven years in prison for pushing a teacher’s aide. In Georgia, Genarlow Wilson, now 21, faces molestation charges from engaging in consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when...
...right," on the way to jail, fits her crime; it serves to protect the public, since nothing short of jail appeared sufficient to keep her from getting behind the wheel. The deterrent value for other heiresses who are tempted to run off the road remains to be seen. Genarlow, though, is generally viewed as undeserving of his sentence, unthreatening to public safety, his example useless as a deterrent because his conduct is no longer considered a felony. The public outcry over both cases was heartening, if naive. We want justice to be blind to privilege but open to mercy...