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...recently as December, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected Wilson?s first appeal on the grounds that the Legislature had explicitly decided not to apply their legal changes to Wilson's case. In the court's opinion, Justice Carol Hunstein wrote: "While I am very sympathetic to Wilson's argument regarding the injustice of sentencing this promising young man with good grades and no criminal history to ten years in prison without parole and a lifetime registration as a sexual offender ... this Court is bound by the Legislature's determination...
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...
...Wilson was seventeen, a football star and honor student when he was arrested in 2003. At the time of his trial, sexual intercourse between minors less than four years apart was a misdemeanor, even if one of them was younger than 16, Georgia's age of consent. But oral sex - legally considered sodomy in Georgia - carried no so-called Romeo and Juliet provision, and remained a felony in all cases if either party was under...
...anything but happy when you were with Stine.”Many of Rossel’s colleagues also praised her cheerfulness and sense of humor. Fellow graduate student Zinovi Matskevich, who shared an office with Rossel and conducted fieldwork with her in the country of Georgia years before she attended Harvard, said that Rossel brought joy to all who knew her. “She created festivals from the most boring tasks,” he said.Matskevich recalled Rossel composing songs about archaeological distribution patterns—though he said that she attempted to be more solemn at times...
...Rugby has long enjoyed a sizable audience in Britain, Ireland, France, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand and is developing a growing fan base in Argentina and Italy; the numbers of fans tuning in from such World Cup competitors as Tonga, Fiji, Georgia and the U.S. is tiny by comparison, however, so the 4 billion total means a lot more people from a growing number of nations around the world had to be interested enough to tune...