While Scooter and Paris get all the attention, here’s a case that deserves notice. A report from Talk Left begins:
As TalkLeft argued here, it is ridiculous for the State of Georgia to make Genarlow Wilson serve a minimum of 10 years because, at age 17, he engaged in a consensual act of oral sex with a 15 year old girl. Public outrage caused the Georgia legislature to change the law, but Georgia’s courts have refused to apply the change retroactively to save Wilson from an unfair sentence.
NewMexiKen is surprised at Georgia. You’d think a civilized place like that would want to make the punishment fit the crime. Why not just cut his tongue out?
Update: Wilson was released after 27 months on Monday, June 11, 2007.