Monday, June 11, 2007
A judge is moved by the spirit
The Spirit of Justice that is. An appeals judge in Georgia threw out the god awful sentence of Genarlow Wilson, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual sex with a fellow high school student. The trouble was that he was 17 and she was 15 and the age of consent was in the middle.
The judge's ruling Monday threw out Wilson's 10-year sentence and amended it to misdemeanor aggravated child molestation with a 12-month term, plus credit for time served, and he would not be required to register as a sex offender.The Georgia AG appealed this faster than lightning to keep the youngster in jail and save having to explain how he and others could have been so stupi. But their day will come.
"The fact that Genarlow Wilson has spent two years in prison for what is now classified as a misdemeanor, and without assistance from this court, will spend eight more years in prison, is a grave miscarriage of justice," wrote Judge Thomas H. Wilson, who is no relation to Genarlow Wilson.
"If this court or any court cannot recognize the injustice of what has occurred here, then our court system has lost sight of the goal our judicial system has always strived to accomplish ... justice being served in a fair and equal manner," the judge wrote.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment