27 October 2007

Delayed Justice in Georgia

Genarlow Wilson, who received a ten-year prison sentence for having consensual sex with a teenager when he himself was a teenager (he was 17 and she was 15), was released from prison yesterday following a Georgia court's ruling that the sentence was “grossly disproportionate” to the crime, which the justices said “did not rise to the level of culpability of adults who prey on children.”