Free at last, free at last !!!! Genarlow Wilson in prison no more! by AURaptor

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Free at last, free at last !!!! Genarlow Wilson in prison no more!

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UPDATED: Saturday, October 27, 2007 05:41
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Friday, October 26, 2007 2:39 PM

America loves a winner!

Wilson released after two years behind bars for teen sex conviction

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Genarlow Wilson was released from prison Friday, after spending more than two years behind bars for a teen sex conviction.

"At times I dealt with adversity ... my family and myself, we finally get to deal with happiness now," Wilson said, with his mother and sister at his side.

The Georgia Supreme Court earlier Friday ordered that he be released, ruling 4-3 that his sentence was cruel and unusual punishment.

Wilson, 21, was convicted in 2005 of having oral sex with a consenting 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

Wilson said he first heard about the possibility he'd be freed Friday when someone told him word was out on the radio.

"I'd seen it coming, but I didn't exactly know when," he said. "I'd just stopped trying to figure the courts out and stopped trying to put a date on it." Watch Wilson describe his journey to justice »

Wilson said he was looking forward to spending time with his family and plans to enroll in college to study sociology.

"You will not be disappointed," he told his supporters. "I plan on succeeding in life."

The good story is that only 2 yrs instead of 10 were taken from this young mans life. Here's to him making the best of what was returned to him.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Friday, October 26, 2007 4:17 PM

LEADB

Thanks for the good news, Rap. A pity it was not sooner; but as you say, it's better than later.

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Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:41 AM

FREMDFIRMA

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that "... Wilson's sentence is grossly disproportionate to his crime and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under both the Georgia and the United States Constitutions."

And now, to the business of Mcdade.

McDade had reasons outside of his office for this prosecution, and performed it in a vicious and often unlawful manner (demanding the witnesses perjure, the tapes, etc) to fulfil a personal agenda.

While satisfied that Wilson is finally free, and no doubt gonna sue the crap out of them, one must also look to the future, and wonder why McDade is still employed, and what poor sodder next might find themselves in the legal gunsights of this maniac, who has a history of misconduct pre-dating the Wilson case.

And for that I mean to see him in the unemployment line, call it a public safety measure.

Not at all through with you, Dave... nope.

Cheers and thanks to all the folks on this board and elsewhere who kept the pressure on these bastards so that this case could not be shovelled under the rug and forgotten.

Ya did good, people.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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