Sometimes We Forget That Judges Are Just Law School Students With A Title
Giving no reason for the decision to reverse themselves and move the case ahead on their docket, Genarlow Wilson will get a hearing before Georgia's top court earlier than what was first reported.
Anyone who continues to argue for this former homecoming king, scholar-athlete's imprisonment has absolutely no conscious.
The state Supreme Court on Monday said they would hear a pair of appeals from Wilson, who's serving a 10-year prison sentence for having oral sex with a fellow teenager, next week.
A White Monroe County judge last month actually had the guts to say that Wilson's sentence was "a grave miscarriage of justice" and ordered him released.
But state Attorney General Thurbert Baker and candidate for 2007 Uncle Tom honors appealed that decision saying the judge overstepped his bounds.This brother actually had the nerve to argue that the ruling could help free some 1,300 child molesters in Georgia's jails. Trust me, his assertions are completely self-serving, especially since the Black Democrat is the only state-wide elected official of color in Georgia.
Wilson's lawyer, B.J. Bernstein, has asked for Wilson to be released on bond while the appeal is decided. A Douglas County judge denied that request, saying Wilson's conviction on the charge of aggravated child molestation made him ineligible for bond.
Initially scheduled to hear Wilson's appeal in October, The high court said it would consider appeals on both the underlying case and the bond issue on July 20.
Now 21, Wilson is serving a 10-year mandatory sentence for aggravated child molestation stemming from a 2003 New Year's Eve party where he was captured on videotape receiving oral sex from a fellow 15-year-old female high school student. The law has since been changed by Georgia lawmakers, but the state's top court said the new law could not be applied retroactively.Wilson was also charged in 2003 with raping a 17-year-old girl at the party, but a jury acquitted him of the charges.
Five other high school partygoers accepted plea deals in the case. Wilson has rejected plea offers, including one that would allow him to avoid being listed on Georgia's sex offender registry.