Could this happen to your child? Your brother? Your friend?
Genarlow Wilson sits in prison despite being a good son, a good athlete and high school student with a 3.2 GPA. He never had any criminal trouble. On the day he was to sit for the SAT, at seventeen years old, his life changed forever. He was arrested. In Douglas County he was accused of inappropriate sexual acts at a News Year’s Eve party. A jury acquitted him of the allegation of Rape but convicted him of Aggravated Child Molestation for a voluntary act of oral sex with another teenager. He was 17, and she was 15.
Along with the label “child molester†which will require him throughout his life to be on a sexual offender registry, Genarlow received a sentence of eleven years — a mandatory 10 years in prison and 1 year on probation.
On July 1st, the new Romeo and Juliet law went into effect in Georgia for any other teen that engages in consensual sexual acts. That change in the law means that no teen prosecuted for consensual oral sex could receive more than a 12 months sentence or be required to register as a sex offender.
Had this law been in effect when Genarlow Wilson was arrested, or had been done after the Marcus Dixon case, Genarlow would not now be in jail.
Genarlow and his mother are overjoyed that no one else in Georgia will have to know their pain. In the meantime, however, the legal fight goes on for Genarlow Wilson.
Genarlow has been incarcerated since February 25, 2005.
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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PJDoll wrote:
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
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PJDoll wrote:
glorified_version wrote:
PJDoll wrote:
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
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PJDoll wrote:
glorified_version wrote:
PJDoll wrote:
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
I've heard that these laws are disproportionately enforced against black men. I've also heard that the death penalty is dsproportionately enforced aganist black men.
Racism?
_________________ Unfortunately, at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, the Flower Children jerked off and went back to sleep.
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
I've heard that these laws are disproportionately enforced against black men. I've also heard that the death penalty is dsproportionately enforced aganist black men.
Racism?
OK. Are we talking about this article or are we talking about generalizations we've heard?
I've heard there is more violence in cities. Does that mean that whenever a thread is started about a particular story and it happens to take place in a city I should start talking about violent crimes?
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PJDoll wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
PJDoll wrote:
glorified_version wrote:
PJDoll wrote:
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
I've heard that these laws are disproportionately enforced against black men. I've also heard that the death penalty is dsproportionately enforced aganist black men.
Racism?
OK. Are we talking about this article or are we talking about generalizations we've heard?
I've heard there is more violence in cities. Does that mean that whenever a thread is started about a particular story and it happens to take place in a city I should start talking about violent crimes?
Where all da white women at?
_________________ Unfortunately, at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, the Flower Children jerked off and went back to sleep.
I think a lot of states including NORTHERN states have some old old weird weird laws that never really get enforced. However, there is nothing to prevent some crazy cop or judge with an agenda to start enforcing them.
From what I recall, oral sex is entirely "illegal" in some states.
What does this have to do with the South? Many states have similar laws. This could have been any one of them.
Yeah okay. States like Georgia don't have a history of racism and fear of human sexuality.
Where is the racism in this story? Also, it does state that the law has been changed, right? Almost anyone convicted of a crime is stuck with the old law & punishment when a new law & punishment is enacted if the were convicted before the new law.
This really isn't about the south, it's about stupid laws. Try to stop being so bigoted. It's Christmas after all.
I've heard that these laws are disproportionately enforced against black men. I've also heard that the death penalty is dsproportionately enforced aganist black men.
Racism?
OK. Are we talking about this article or are we talking about generalizations we've heard?
I've heard there is more violence in cities. Does that mean that whenever a thread is started about a particular story and it happens to take place in a city I should start talking about violent crimes?
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Meet Stan, twenty-one years old. ("Give me a kiss!")
After meeting a young girl at a rave party,
things start getting hot and heavy in an upstairs bedroom.
Once again, his conscience comes into play... ("Shit!")
Now listen to me, while you're kissin her cheek
and smearin her lipstick, I slipped this in her drink
Now all you gotta do is nibble on this little bitch's earlobe..
(Yo! This girl's only fifteen years old
You shouldn't take advantage of her, that's not fair)
Yo, look at her bush.. does it got hair? (Uh huh!)
Fuck this bitch right here on the spot bare
Til she passes out and she forgot how she got there
(Man, ain't you ever seen that one movie Kids?)
No, but I seen the porno with SunDoobiest!
(Shit, you wanna get hauled off to jail?)
Man fuck that, hit that shit raw dawg and bail..
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It's got a lot more to do with an idiotic legislature than anything else. Right now the big story is a group of people in a new town over in North Fulton county trying to get a sex shop closed......and we still have blue laws. This state would be fantastic if we quit worring about vibrators and who buys booze on sunday oh and the teaching of evolution... beyond that
The sex laws in this state are ridiculous. They have not been designed with any other purpose than to get some group of people to vote for a particular canidate.
0 tolerance basically equates to zero thought. This case is only one of dozens of retarded failures of the legal system.
Our public schools suck ass, our politicians are morons....our laws are stupid.
as far as everyone still hating all of us here in the south.....that's boring. Stop being so myopic.
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Can we get a Santa hat on that?
