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Nig-Teen Continues to Fight Legal Battle

Genarlow Wilson?s case inspired a key exception to a tough Georgia sex crimes law, but he continues to lose his own legal battle.

Wilson was 17 when he had oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. His attorney says the girl agreed to it, but Wilson was sentenced to ten years in jail for aggravated child molestation.

Now, the state appeals court has thrown out Wilson?s challenge to that sentence.





Wilson?s mother, Juannessa Bennett says that while her son should be puni
shed for the oral sex on New Year?s Eve 2003, he shouldn?t be forced to serve the ten year term of a sexual attacker.



Bennett points to trial testimony that the 15-year-old girl was sober and willing

?She had nothing to drink, she had nothing to smoke. She even admitted that she had lied about her age -- she came forward and she said that,? Bennett said.

Wilson?s case was one reason state lawmakers put an exception in the new sexual predator bill just signed by Gov. Perdue. The ?Romeo and Juliet? clause allows lesser punishment when consenting teens are close in age.

?The problem is the young man who helped change this law is sitting behind bars,? said B.J. Bernstein, Genarlow?s attorney. ?Mr. Wilson was charged with being one of six young men that had gang sex.?

Douglas County District Attorney David McDade prosecuted the so-called Douglasville Six. The other five made plea bargains.

McDade says what Genarlow did would
never qualify for the new exception.

?A group of young men have repeated acts of sex with young women who aren't even capable of consenting to the acts under the law,? McDade said.

The appeals court also rejected a comparison with Marcus Dixon, whose ten-year sentence was overturned. The court said the legal circumstances in the two cases were different.

The other young men got terms ranging from three to six years on lesser charges. McDade says one just got out on parole.

Wilson?s mother says he had two reasons for refusing the plea deal the other five accepted -- first, she says he was not guilty. Second, if he had pleaded guilty, he would have had to register as a sex offender.
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Boon perp with k i ke attorney, B.J. Bernstein, scheming to inflict white guilt syndrome on the state legislature to release rapist perp early

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. -- There is a cardboard box in Genarlow Wilson's old bedroom.




The Bernstein Firm
Despite lacking size, overachieving Genarlow Wilson was being recruited by several college football programs.
It rests on the floor of his empty closet, near the deflated football and basketball. It's filled with things he needed in his old life. Mostly, it's overflowing with recruiting letters, from schools big and small. A "Good luck on the SAT" postcard from the coaches at Columbia. From another Ivy League college, Brown, a note from the football coach: "You have been recommended to me as one of the top scholar-athletes in your area."

There's a questionnaire from the Citadel. A brochure from Elon. An envelope from Sewanee. College after college, all wanting the undersized but overachieving Genarlow Wilson to consider their football programs. One open letter, dated three months before everything in this box became a reminder of a life derailed, invites him to take a campus visit. It begins:

Dear Genarlow,

Here you stand, on the threshold of four of the most influential, challenging, and rewarding years of your life.

Being Inmate No. 1187055
Genarlow Wilson is standing on a threshold all right, at the end of the last hall of Burruss Correctional Training Center, an hour and a half south of Atlanta. He's just a few feet from the mechanical door that closes with a goosebump-raising whurr and clang. Three and a half years after he received that letter, he's wearing a blue jacket with big, white block letters. They read: STATE PRISONER.

He's 20 now. Just two years into a 10-year sentence without possibility of parole, he peers through the thick glass and bars, trying to catch a glimpse of freedom. Outside, guard towers and rolls of coiled barbed wire remind him of who he is.

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Once, he was the homecoming king at Douglas County High. Now he's Georgia inmate No. 1187055, convicted of aggravated child molestation.

When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grader. He was 17. She was 15. Everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed she initiated the act. But because of an archaic Georgia law, it was a misdemeanor for teenagers less than three years apart to have sexual intercourse, but a felony for the same kids to have oral sex.

Afterward, the state legislature changed the law to include an oral sex clause, but that doesn't help Wilson. In yet another baffling twist, the law was written to not apply to cases retroactively, though another legislative solution might be in the works. The case has drawn national condemnation, from the "Free Genarlow Wilson Now" editorial in The New York Times to a feature on Mark Cuban's HDNet.

"It's disgusting," Cuban wrote to ESPN in an e-mail. "I can not see any way, shape or form that the interests of the state of Georgia are served by throwing away Genarlow's youth and opportunity to become a vibrant contributor to the state. All his situation does is reinforce some unfortunate stereotypes that the state is backward and misgoverned. No one with a conscience can look at this case and conclude that justice has been served."

Wilson's mother, Juanessa Bennett, certainly doesn't understand. She has just bought a new house the next county over, hoping that a change of scenery might do her good. The past few years have been hard on her.

"You think, what in the world could I have done to God to make him punish me like this?" she says. "Am I that terrible a person?"




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"It was like I had everything one day, and the next day I didn't have anything," Wilson says.

Her home feels empty without her son in it. He's not there to enjoy the five burgers for five bucks on Tuesday at the Sonic Drive-In, or chatting away on his telephone late at night. Now, she can only think about the past three years of their lives, and how everything is so different from before.

She points to a picture above her fireplace. There's a grinning 3-year-old boy in the frame, posing with big alphabet blocks.

"He was cute, huh?" she says, quietly.

She looks at the picture, but doesn't cry. There aren't many tears left. After it first happened, she says she cried so much she got an eye infection. Bumps broke out on her face, brought on by worry and grief.

"You need to stop stressing," the doctor told her.

She asked him how exactly she might do that.

"He didn't have an answer," Bennett says.

Now, she's numb. Now, she can only remember the boy he was and pray that when his ordeal is finally over, some of that boy will remain.

The image of a bright future dimming with each passing day is what infuriates so many people. Wilson should be held up as an example of a kid who was making it. His life should be protected by society, not destroyed. He was a good student, with a 3.2 grade point average. He was popular, the school's homecoming king, liked by students and teachers. He never got into any trouble with the law. He was a track and football star. His last two years, he was the defensive back assigned to cover Calvin Johnson, the former Sandy Creek High star who went on to Georgia Tech and is now projected as a top pick in the NFL draft. Wilson studied film, trying to figure out how to outsmart a better and taller athlete. He did well, coaches remember, limiting Johnson to four catches in two games.

Three years later, sitting in their office overlooking the field, finishing up another workday, Wilson's old coaches also remember a good but not great high school player who would have played college ball. They remember his last game, in the playoffs, way down in south Georgia. He got hit so hard on a kickoff return that he ended up spitting up blood on the sideline. The trainer shined a flashlight in his eye, figuring he had a concussion. Wilson grabbed his helmet, determined to go back in the game. He went to the hospital instead.




The Bernstein Firm
From drinking to smoking pot to acting like a cocky star athlete, Wilson now cringes at some of the mistakes he made in high school.
He admits he wasn't perfect. Far from it. He drank. He smoked pot. He'd been sexually active since he was 13. And a month or so after that final playoff game, he and some buddies were plotting a New Year's Eve bash. His mama heard them whispering in his bedroom that afternoon. She knew kids whispering usually meant trouble, so she went in and looked those boys up and down.

"Don't do anything stupid," she warned.

Something Stupid
Genarlow Wilson and his friends checked into the Days Inn right off Interstate 20. At some point in the night, according to court documents and evidence presented at trial, some girls came over to party with them. Bourbon and marijuana were consumed. One of the young men turned on a video camera.

Later in the evening, a 17-year-old girl began to have sex with the young men, first in the bathroom, then on the bed. Genarlow is captured on tape appearing to have sex with the girl from behind. Her hand is clearly visible on the floor supporting herself. Witnesses said she was a willing participant.

The next morning, the girl awoke in a stupor, wearing nothing but her socks. She called her mother and said she had been raped. Police came to the room after sunrise and took the revelers in for questioning. Genarlow had already gone home -- he didn't want to miss curfew -- but the video camera remained.

On tape, the cops saw a 15-year-old girl, a 10th-grader, performing oral sex on a partygoer and, after finishing with him, turning and performing the act on Genarlow. She was the instigator, according to her mother's testimony. Problem was, the girl was a year under the age of consent. Local prosecutors called the act aggravated child molestation, following the letter and not the spirit of the law, which was designed to prosecute pedophiles.

A week later, on the first day of the second semester of his senior year, the police went to the school and arrested the boys. Wilson was charged with four felonies and taken from the building in handcuffs. Not long before, he'd been in the newspaper for being all-conference in football. Now, he was on the front page, branded a rapist and child molester.

"It was like I had everything one day," he says, "and the next day I didn't have anything."

For the next eight months, Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, who likes to wear an American flag on his lapel and play to his law-and-order-loving base, dangled plea bargains. The other boys didn't want to risk a jury, and one by one each took an offer and went to prison, including the other football player arrested, Narada Williams, who accepted five years with the possibility of parole.

In Douglas County, according to law professors following the case, admitting sins and begging forgiveness -- not insisting on your innocence -- is the road to mercy. Williams is already out of jail, in part because McDade wrote a letter to the parole board, praising Williams for being the first to plead guilty and "take his medicine." As for Wilson, McDade called him a "martyr" in the media.




The Bernstein Firm
If he had accepted the plea bargain, Wilson would've had to register as a sex offender and wouldn't have been permitted to live in the same house as his younger sister.
Wilson refused to admit to being a child molester. If he pled to or was convicted of any charge that put him on the sex offender registry, he couldn't live at home with his younger sister. He wouldn't accept that, so he waited for his trial.

The Saturday before it began, his last weekend as a free man, Wilson tried out for a local semi-pro football team. He wanted to be that other person once more, the one who could outrun all of life's problems. For two glorious hours, he sprinted and jumped and dived. When it was over, the coaches were impressed. They traded cell phone numbers, just another opportunity that would soon pass him by.

Two days later, in February 2005, Genarlow Wilson walked into a courtroom. Two charges already had been dropped, and it was clear from the first witness that the rape charge wouldn't stick either. The aggravated child molestation, though, was on tape. Genarlow tried to defend himself against the assigned prosecutor, Eddie Barker.

"Sir," Wilson told him, "you don't even know me. I understand you're just doing your job, sure, but I mean, how would you feel if you were my age and you were put on the stand with these serious charges at this young age? I have a little sister. Why would I molest anyone, sir?"

"I'm not on trial here, Mr. Wilson," Barker said. "You're the one who did these acts, not me."

The day before the trial was expected to end, in the last night he'd ever spend at his home, Wilson went to a church down the street and asked the preacher to pray with him. He awoke early the next morning. He knotted his tie carefully and went to the courthouse. The trial finished that afternoon, and the jury came back with "not guilty" on the rape but "guilty" on the aggravated child molestation.

He looked at the forewoman. She was crying, seeming to understand they'd just undone a promising future. Indeed, when the jurors found out there was a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence, several were incensed. The prosecution told them to write a letter, then moved on to the next case.

Genarlow Wilson put his head in his hands and wept.




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Once identified as a promising football prospect, Wilson is now just known as inmate No. 1187055.

Deputies yanked him from his seat. Not long after, Prisoner 1187055 found himself in the predawn darkness, riding in a bus, surrounded not by his teammates but by murderers, thieves and rapists. Some were headed to the penitentiary for the second or third time.

A scared kid looked out the window as the bus chewed up pavement. He didn't know what it was going to be like, only that he didn't want to go.

Doing Hard Time
Wilson moves to the rhythm of the prison now, up early with the shift change, tidying his cell, sitting down to rest before chow, wearing white pants with a blue stripe. It has been 23 months.

These walls and bars haven't taken his youth, though. Not yet. When he smiles, it's the same one from that old photo on his mom's mantel. Bennett wonders how her son has managed to keep that light in such a dark place and how much longer he can hold out.

With nothing but time, he has taken stock of his old life. He doesn't like the person he was back then, the cocky star athlete with the world as his yo-yo. When he thinks about the kid on that videotape, with a Pittsburgh Pirates hat cocked just so, he cringes.

"It's embarrassing to me," he says. "You see yourself. ... 'Man, I acted like that?' "

He has followed his appeals from behind bars. He watched as the state legislature changed the law that put him there, then declined to make it retroactive, for reasons that still boggle the mind. That was a dark day.

He watched as B.J. Bernstein, his new attorney, filed a petition for writ of certiorari, asking the Georgia Supreme Court to review the case. The petition was denied, then set aside, then denied again, then appealed, then denied again. Those were darker days.

The first time the Supreme Court voted on Genarlow's case, it was 4-3. The four judges who voted against the black teen were white. The three judges who voted for him were black.

"I don't understand the Supreme Court," Bennett says. "Do these people not have hearts? Can they not look and see this isn't right?"




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Wilson's attorney, B.J. Bernstein, is working pro bono to try to get her client out of prison.

In its written decision, the Supreme Court called Wilson a "promising young man," a paragraph that he has read a thousand times. All the e-mails Bernstein gets in support of him, he has those, too. He reads them over and over, reminding himself that he once had a future and, one day, might have it again. It's not easy.

Other people's lives have moved on.

He has corresponded with Williams, his co-defendant and old high school teammate. Williams is enrolled in college now.

Wilson sat in prison and watched Calvin Johnson, the guy he once covered, become the best college receiver in the country and a soon-to-be millionaire.

"That has made my ambitions higher," Wilson says. "That makes me want to succeed even more because I don't want to be left behind."

The Halls of Power
In Atlanta, Bernstein makes her rounds at the state capitol. It's the first day of the legislative session and men in power ties click their wingtips over marble floors, lobbyists back-slapping each other in their little groups.

"He's sitting in jail," she says. "He's in jail every day they're sitting around chatting."




Tracy Smith/Special to ESPN.com
Instead of an Ivy League school, Wilson went straight from Douglas County High to Burruss Correctional Training Center.

When Bernstein met Wilson, who had a different attorney for the trial, she saw that light in his eyes and didn't want prison to extinguish it. Truth is, she's a rescuer. One of her cats she found on the interstate. She stopped her car in the rain on a six-lane highway to save it. In her heart, she wants to save the world, starting with Genarlow Wilson. That means working pro bono, even as every small check the firm earns goes straight into the operating account. That means figuring out this strange power-brokers' dance.

It's frustrating work. No one involved believes Wilson should be in jail for 10 years.

The prosecutors don't.

The Supreme Court doesn't.

The legislature doesn't.

The 15-year-old "victim" doesn't.

The forewoman of the jury doesn't.

Privately, even prison officials don't.

Yet no one will do anything to free him, passing responsibility around like a hot potato. The prosecutors say they were just doing their job. The Supreme Court says it couldn't free him because the state legislature decreed the new law didn't apply to old cases, even though this case was the entire reason the new law was passed. One possible explanation is that Bernstein, an admitted neophyte at backroom dealing, simply didn't know enough politics to insist on the provision. That haunts her.




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As an honor student, football star and homecoming king, Wilson conquered challenges in high school ... but he now faces an uncertain future.

The legislature still could pass a new law that would secure Wilson's freedom, so Bernstein is pushing hard for that. One such bipartisan bill was introduced this week, pushed by state Sens. Emanuel Jones, Dan Weber and Kasim Reed. This is Wilson's best shot.

"I understand the injustice in the justice system," Jones says, "and when I heard about Genarlow and started studying what had happened, I said, 'This is a wrong that must be righted.' Everyone agrees that justice is not being served."

Afterward, Bernstein can file a writ of habeas corpus, which could get him out of jail, but those are legal Hail Marys. She's a true believer, but if the legislature denies this latest attempt, she knows she might not be able to save Genarlow Wilson. Until it's over, nothing's off the table. Not even simple positive thinking. Sitting at a midtown-Atlanta Chinese restaurant on a lunch break from all the political wrangling, she picked up her fortune cookie, smiled thinly and said, "Gimme a good one: Genarlow will be free."

She's still working every angle, from the capital to cookies, riding up an elevator to the 53rd floor of an Atlanta high-rise to see David Balser, the attorney who got Marcus Dixon out of jail. The Dixon case was similar: As an 18-year-old, he had sex with a 15-year-old girl and was sentenced to 10 years before the conviction was overturned.

Sitting in a conference room overlooking Stone Mountain, Balser listens. The light shines off his gold cufflinks, the high-thread-count shirt hanging perfectly off his shoulders. He's got a little salt in his pepper and a Virgin Islands tan. They talk media strategy. They talk last-ditch plans, including a constitutional amendment returning pardon power to the governor. When they're done, Balser walks Bernstein to the elevator.

"I think less is more, B.J.," he says. "You've got to get him out and solve the world's problems after that. Just get him out."

"I'm trying," she says.

"I have faith in you," he says.

Letter of the Law
Every story needs a villain, and in this one, the villain's hat has been placed squarely on the head of Barker, the prosecutor and a former college baseball player. Barker doesn't write the laws in the books to the left of his desk. He simply punishes those who break them.

"We didn't want him to get the 10 years," he says. "We understand there's an element out there scratching their heads, saying, 'How does a kid get 10 years under these facts?' "

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In Barker's eyes, Wilson should have taken the same plea agreement as the others. Maintaining innocence in the face of the crushing wheels of justice is the ultimate act of vanity, he believes.

"I understand what he's saying," Barker says. "I think he's making a bad decision in the long run. Being branded a sex offender is not good; but at the same time, if it made the difference between spending 10 years as opposed to two? Is it worth sitting in prison for eight more years, and you're still gonna be a sex offender when you get out?"

Barker is quick to point out that he offered Wilson a plea after he'd been found guilty -- the first time he has ever done that. Of course, the plea was the same five years he'd offered before the trial -- not taking into account the rape acquittal. Barker thinks five years is fair for receiving oral sex from a schoolmate. None of the other defendants insisted on a jury trial. Wilson did. He rolled the dice, and he lost. The others, he says, "took their medicine."

While Bernstein works on every possible legal solution, the Douglas County District Attorney's Office has the power to get Wilson out of prison. If the prosecution wanted, this could all end tomorrow. The D.A.'s office says Bernstein hasn't asked. Bernstein says she has. Not that any legal he said/she said matters. Only the prosecutors' opinion does, and according to at least one legal expert, prosecutorial ego is more of a factor in this case than race. The folks in Douglas County are playing god with Genarlow Wilson's life.

"We can set aside his sentence," Barker says. "Legally, it's still possible for us to set aside his sentence and give him a new sentence to a lesser charge. But it's up to us. He has no control over it."

The position of Barker and the district attorney, McDade, who refused to comment, is that Wilson is guilty under the law and there is no room for mercy, though the facts seem to say they simply chose not to give it to Wilson. At the same time this trial was under way, a local high school teacher, a white female, was found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a student -- a true case of child molestation. The teacher received 90 days. Wilson received 3,650 days.

Now, if Wilson wants a shot at getting out, he must throw himself at the prosecutors' feet and ask for mercy, which he might or might not receive. Joseph Heller would love this. If Wilson would only admit to being a child molester, he could stop receiving the punishment of one. Maybe.

"Well," Barker says, "the one person who can change things at this point is Genarlow. The ball's in his court."

Hanging On To Hope
Back at Burruss, Genarlow Wilson is standing against the wall, looking out through the glass of the control room, peering between the bars, watching his attorney and another visitor leave. He has had plenty of people who want to talk to him, including a group of concerned legislators who plan on visiting this week, which finally feels like a real step toward freedom. Problem is, they always go home after an hour or two. He stays behind.

The worst is when his mom comes. She visited on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, bringing him news of the outside world and a smile. She told him about the new house she bought, just over the Cobb County line, finally out of Douglas. She doesn't want him moving back there when he's released. Saying goodbye, though, kills him. He watches her go and is taken back to his cell, where he can just imagine her in her car, imagining him in this prison.




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Wilson is facing another eight years behind bars if his sentence is upheld.
"When she leaves, a part of me leaves," he says. "I just have to get myself back together because we've got a long way to go. I try not to think about doing the whole 10. I'm putting claims on going home this year."

Hope is all he has left. He believes in a system that has failed him. He believes in those powerful men in Atlanta. He believes in the kindness of others, and in the skills of Bernstein. He lets her work, spending most of his days in the prison library, reading all the books he can. Sometimes, he pretends he's a character, living in a fantasy world, not in a cellblock.

When the weather's nice, he can run laps around the yard, as if he's still on a football field, chasing down future first-round picks. The burn in his lungs feels like a time long past. It feels like freedom.

He looks through the windows just a moment more, sadness in his eyes, then turns around. Wilson stares down the hall of his prison, waiting on a day when he can go home.

"I've got a real good feeling about what's going on," he says. "I feel like 2007 is it. This is my year."

His mom has the house ready for him because any day now, her baby's coming back. She just knows it. Over past the dryer, that's his new bedroom. She picked it because it's close to the garage, so he could come and go as he pleases. She thought he deserved that.

Everything's set, in case it's tomorrow. She left the rapper posters rolled up, figuring a man would be coming home. She set out his football trophies and his high school diploma, to remind him what he used to be. She hooked up a television and a stereo. An alarm clock is on the nightstand, so he can get himself up for school. Even the bed is made.

The only thing missing is her son.

I could almost (not really)feel a small amount of guilt for this boon if I DID NOT KNOW HOW MANY WHITES HAVE SUFFERED ROBBERY,RAPE, AND MURDER AT THE HANDS OF THIS EVIL DARK RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...5genarlow.html Hearing could free teen imprisoned for consensual sex

By JEREMY REDMON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 06/05/07

Forsyth — Genarlow Wilson says he regrets some of the things he did at a raunchy New Year's Even party in 2003 that put him in the national spotlight.

But he argues his 10-year prison sentence was too harsh for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

"Some of the decisions I made were not some of the best ones," Wilson, now 21, said in an interview this week at the Burruss Correctional Training Center, where he is being held with no chance of parole.

"Just being a teenager, you know, you got to make a lot of mistakes, but you have to learn from them. I don't feel like one mistake should cost me ten years in prison and a lifetime on the sex offender registry. I want to be able to go to school and have kids."

Wilson is scheduled to be in court Wednesday when a Monroe County Superior Court judge considers his petition to have his conviction thrown out. Among other things, his petition argues that his trial lawyers gave him ineffective representation and that he got a "grossly disproportionate" sentence.

Wilson's case has attracted national media attention, from "Good Morning America" to "The O'Reilly Factor." Several influential people are going to bat for him, including former President Jimmy(Mr. Irrelevant)Carter. Carter wrote Attorney General Thurbert Baker last month in support of Wilson's petition, citing the "disproportionate nature" of his punishment. Wilson has been locked up for more than two years now.

"The racial dimension of the case is likewise hard to ignore and perhaps unfortunately has had an impact on the final outcome of the case," Carter wrote Baker on May 24. "There is some statistical evidence reported by various non-profit agencies in Georgia, leading me to believe that white minor defendants in the same circumstances as Mr. Wilson's receive far lesser forms of punishment."

The state Legislature, recognizing that certain sex acts between consenting teenagers of a close age should not carry harsh penalties, changed the law in 2005 to make similar actions a misdemeanor. Wilson cites that change in his latest petition with the court.

"How can you make a law to apply to the people after 2005... and not make it apply for all? That is really not fair," he said.

Wilson was originally charged with raping a 17-year-old at the party, but was acquitted. He was ultimately found guilty of aggravated child molestation involving the 15-year-old girl. Four other male youths at the party pleaded guilty to child molestation of the 15-year-old and sexual battery of the 17-year-old. A fifth pleaded guilty to false imprisonment. Their party was captured on a profanity-laden and sexually graphic video filmed by one of the five.

Baker has filed a response with the court, opposing Wilson's petition. A spokesman for Baker said he would have no comment on the case because it is still pending. The victim's family is also declining to talk to the media about the case, said Douglas County District Attorney David McDade, whose office prosecuted Wilson.

McDade said race did not play a role in Wilson's case, pointing out that all of the defendants and both victims are black."I said early on in this case if I or this office had turned our heads and looked the other way when these two young ladies and their families cried out for help," he said, "I would have justifiably been accused of putting a deaf ear to African-American victims."
Thank god no humans involved
Plea offer still stands

During the trial, McDade added, Wilson refused to accept a plea agreement in which he could have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of child molestation and faced up to five years in prison with the possibility of parole, McDade said. That offer still stands today, McDade said.

"They have lost in the courts and they are trying to — I guess, through misinformation — convince the public and the media that this is somehow an injustice," McDade said. "People who have watched the videotape will be left with a different impression."

Wilson said this week that he didn't accept the plea deal because he fears being on the state's sex offender registry.

"I don't feel like I'm a sexual predator or I am a pedophile in any type of way," said Wilson, a trim man with a pencil-thin mustache, close-cropped hair and an easy smile.

Wilson said he regretted drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana at the party. He also talked about his encounters with the girls that night.

"At first I was just looking at stuff from my angle, really being selfish," he said. "You have to think about what the next person goes through. You have to be open-minded to everything... When you are under the influence and stuff like that, sometimes you do things you normally wouldn't do if you were sober. I feel like to a certain extent those things shouldn't have been done."

Wilson said he was an A and B student at Douglas County High School, where he played football, ran track and served as Homecoming King. He is now behind bars at Burruss, a medium security prison that holds 800 men in two-man cells.

He said he has sought escape in books, including Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father," "The Purpose-Driven Life" and the entire "Harry Potter" series. He also works in the medical section of the prison, where he said he cleans up blood spilled in fights between inmates. He said he dreams about going to college one day and studying political science and sociology.

Meanwhile, Wilson said, his single mother and eight-year-old sister visit him regularly at prison. A tattoo of a cross on his right forearm bears their first initials and the words "My Angel." He said he doesn't communicate with his father.

As for his hearing Wednesday, Wilson said: "I'm really praying for the best. But at the same time I'm expecting the worst."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16862643/

"Not fair": Ten years for consensual oral sex
Prosecutors are obligated to protect defendants from unfair sentences


Genarlow Wilson

Ten years in prison for receiving oral sex. That is Genarlow Wilson’s sentence.

When he was 17 years old and a high school senior, he received "consensual" oral sex from a 15-year-old, 10th-grade girl.

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Everyone agreed, including the prosecutor and the girl herself, that she initiated the act.

It was all captured on video — the evidence used to convict him at trial. On the tape, police saw a 15-year-old perform oral sex on one partygoer, and after finishing with him, she turned and did the same to Wilson.

Under Georgia law at the time, this was considered aggravated child molestation, a felony for teens less than three years apart to have oral sex. It carried with it a 10-year sentence, even though it was only a misdemeanor for those same teens to have sexual intercourse.

The D.A. offered Wilson — a football "standout' who was being recruited by some of nation’s top colleges, including Columbia and Brown — a plea deal: five years in prison and register as a sex offender. He turned it down.

[Gman]

Too bad, nigger!!!! For all the evil your sick race visits on the white race, it means nothing to me that a nigger gets a sentence that is too harsh!!! I would lock up all nigger bucks if I had the power.

Gman

[Gman]

"Damn!! I iz gonna mizz all dis here down low sex with my homies when dey let me outs of here!"


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/11/tee...ase/index.html
Appeal blocks release in teen sex case
POSTED: 3:25 p.m. EDT, June 11, 2007
Story Highlights• NEW: Prosecutors appeal ruling to throw out Genarlow Wilson's sentence
• Judge voided Wilson's 10-year prison term
• Wilson in prison for consensual oral sex at age 17 with 15-year-old girl
• He will remain in prison until appeal is decided

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A judge on Monday threw out the 10-year sentence against a 21-year-old for a consensual sex encounter he had as a teenager. But the state attorney general quickly filed a notice of appeal, keeping Genarlow Wilson in prison for the time being.

The prosecutor's move brought an abrupt halt to the jubilation Wilson's mother, Juannessa Bennett, and his attorney, B.J. Bernstein, were feeling, and the plans they were making for Bennett to be reunited with her son.

"It is extremely, extremely disturbing that the attorney general would take this action now," Bernstein said, adding that she did not know what message "he's trying to send" or "who he's representing."

In a written statement, Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker said he filed the appeal to resolve "clearly erroneous legal issues," saying that while the judge did have the authority to grant habeas relief, he did not have the authority "to reduce or modify the judgment of the trial court."

Separately, Baker noted that Douglas County recently had offered a plea deal "that would have allowed Genarlow Wilson to plead to First Offender Treatment, which would mean that he would not have a criminal record nor would he be subject to registering on the sex offender registry once his sentence had been completed."

"The plea deal, if accepted by Genarlow Wilson's lawyers, could also result in Genarlow Wilson receiving a sentence substantially shorter than the 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for which he was originally sentenced, possibly leading to his release based upon time already served," Baker wrote.

"Genarlow Wilson, through his attorneys, rejected all of those offers. The district attorney's office has indicated that the plea offer will remain available to Genarlow Wilson notwithstanding the appeals process," according to Baker's statement.

Wilson has drawn support from throughout the country, including the editorial board of the New York Times and former President Jimmy Carter.

When he was 17 years old, he had a consensual sexual encounter with a 15-year-old girl, which was consensually videotaped.

Georgia law at the time made such an action a felony punishable by 10 years in prison and listing on the sex offender registry.

The state legislature later changed the law, partly in response to Wilson's case. But the change was not made retroactive, leaving Wilson in jail. He has already served more than two years.

Superior Court Judge Thomas H. Wilson of Monroe County, Georgia, voided the sentence Monday, agreeing with Bernstein that the punishment was cruel and unusual, and therefore unconstitutional, Bernstein said.

The judge ruled Wilson should serve one year, less than he has already served, and that he would not be listed as a sex offender.

Upon reading his ruling, which was faxed to her office in Atlanta, Bernstein cheered, screamed with delight, and hugged Wilson's mother. Watch Wilson's mom, lawyer's tearful reaction to the judge's ruling

"I just feel like a miracle happened," Bennett told CNN.

"He didn't deserve to have the sexual predator status," she said.

When Bernstein -- a frequent guest on CNN -- spoke to reporters before the attorney general's announcement, she pleaded with prosecutors to give up the fight.

"This has been a really long 28 months," Bernstein said tearfully. "It's a very long fight. And right now we have an order of release. And I beg the attorney general of the state of Georgia: please, enough. Do not file an appeal, please. Because we have an order of release right now for a young man that I think most everybody in the community believes should not be in prison."

She added, "Please, please, enough."

Bennett called the decision "a dream come true. It's definitely a dream come true." Of the judge she said, "He got a lot of heart, and God bless him."

Bernstein said she could not believe how long it took to get to this point.

I would vote to lock up this sex addicted boon for another 70 years!!!! ARRRRGRR!!

Gman

What does everyone think of this case?

[The Bobster]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070713/...teen_sex_video

Prosecutor under fire in teen sex case

By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer

Fri Jul 13, 5:44 AM ET

ATLANTA - District Attorney David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teeniggers having sex at a party.



McDade says Georgia's open-records law leaves him no choice but to release the footage because it was evidence in one of the state's most turbulent cases — that of Genarlow Wilson, a young moolie serving 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a girl when they were teenagers.

McDade's actions have opened him up to accusations that he is vindictively misusing his authority to keep Wilson behind bars — and worse, distributing child pornography.

"This has been a ferocious, vindictive prosecution of Genarlow Wilson," said state Sen. Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Niggocrat. "What is going on is a vendetta."

McDade, who is district attorney in Douglas County, in suburban Atlanta, did not immediately return calls Thursday.

He has said that while the law required him to release the video, he also believes the footage helps his case — by showing that Wilson is not the squeaky-clean football star and honor student portrayed by his supporters.

"Most of those who do not want people to see the tape know that it's damning to their position," McDade told The Associated Press.

He released the video after receiving an open records request from the AP, and said he has given it to about three dozen people, including reporters, lawmakers and several members of the public who requested it.

It shows Wilson, then 17, receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl and having intercourse with another 17-year-old girl. It was shot at a 2003 New Year's Eve Party at a hotel room by another partygoer.

Earlier this week, Georgia's chief federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney David Nahmias, said the video "constitutes child pornography under federal law," and he called on McDade's office to stop releasing copies.

"These laws are intended to protect the children depicted in such images from the ongoing victimization of having their sexual activity viewed by others," Nahmias said.

Nahmias' office refused to say whether he would bring criminal charges against the D.A.

Critics say that at the very least, McDade should have obscured the faces of the underage girls to conceal their identity, or sought a protective order to keep the material under seal.

Such steps are common in sex abuses cases, especially those involving underage victims, said Diane Moyer, legal director for the Pennsylvania-based National Sexual Violence Research Center.

"The bottom line is we need to have respect for the victims in these kinds of cases," Moyer said. "To release this kind of thing, to me it's prurient and it takes the open records law too far."

Several Wilson supporters likened McDade to disgraced Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong and called on Georgia's attorney general to investigate.

"Mike Nifong lost his license, and if he lost his license, then certainly a district attorney that distributes child pornography ought to be investigated," the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said Thursday.

State Sen. Emanuel Jones said he would introduce legislation to block district attorneys from handing over photographic images in sex cases.

"I'm going to call it the David McDade Act," Jones said. "Sometimes we have to protect our kids from district attorneys."

Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation for having oral sex with the 15-year-old girl. He has served more than two years of a mandatory 10-year sentence.

The law Wilson was convicted of breaking made consensual oral sex between teens a felony. It has since been changed by the Georgia Legislature. But the state's courts have held that the new law cannot be applied retroactively.

A judge last month called Wilson's sentence "a grave miscarriage of justice" and ordered him set free. But prosecutors are trying to block his release. The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear the case next week.

McDade fought a bill in the Legislature earlier this year that would have helped Wilson. Some lawmakers who were on the fence changed their mind after seeing the tape.

[Faust]

According to neocon provocateur "Jack Bauer", the justice system in the
South is rigged in order to prove that each state has PC credentials. This
case puts that contention to rest, at least where the

Below is a mild version of the events. "Never-in-trouble" "student-athelete"
Genarlow Wilson and his homies gave alcohol and drugs to two girls,
detained one of them against her will, had sex with them, and then paid
the consequences. Now, the national media from the NYT to NPR to ESPN,
fine Episcopalians that they are, are clamoring in support of Genarlow's lawyer
BJ Bernstein as she grandstands at the Georgia capitol. Never mind that
Genarlow's intention, once he finished with the underage girls, was to display
the video of his conquest to all his other upstanding friends. Now he's just
a good kid who made a simple mistake. The white liberals that have joined
Al Sharpton and other career race hustlers in supporting special legislation for
Genarlow are ignoring that if this is granted over 1,300 child molesters in Georgia
may be helped to go free. Only if their own daughters are victims of a Mandingo
assault will they realize their mistake, and perhaps not even then.

White liberals- and Oprah- got another black rapist in Georgia, Marcus Dixon,
out of trouble after he raped a young white girl. The race card was played,
and noble savage Dixon went on to play college football.

These heroes might want to make sure that when the media pressure finally
results in gaining them their freedom, they don't stop until hitting a far-distant
state line. In more rational days, this type of dog and pony show wouldn't
have been necessary, and Wilson and Dixon would have met the same justice
granted Ms. Bernstein's co-religionist, Leo Frank- that is, justice at the end
of a rope.

http://www.originaldissent.com/forum...ead.php?t=3704

Sunday, February 18, 2007


GENARLOW WILSON & SB 37: WHO IS THE VICTIM?
Sen. Eric Johnson

Genarlow Wilson was charged with rape, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, aggravated sodomy and aggravated child molestation. He and five buddies videotaped their “party”�”� with two young girls – one of who was 17 and another who was 15.

Mr. Wilson engaged in intercourse with the 17-year old even after she was “semi-conscious”�”� from alcohol and drugs. In fact, Mr. Wilson is abusive while having sex with the passed out girl – a fact ignored by the media, but witnessed by the jury – and encouraged the others to join him. And five of the six received oral sex from the minor. This is against the law in Georgia because a minor is not deemed capable of consenting to such an act. This was not two star-crossed lovers on a date!

Five of the six men pled guilty to the lesser charge of child molestation. They will serve three to six years. Mr. Wilson decided to fight – and he was convicted by a unanimous jury of his peers of aggravated child molestation. (They could have found him “not guilty”�”� and didn’t.) Between conviction and sentencing, he was again offered the plea bargain instead of the mandatory 10 year sentence. He refused and accepted the sentence. That offer, by the way, is still available today. He can go before the judge any time and request a retrial and receive the lesser sentence. He and his lawyer appear to prefer martyrdom to the five additional years in prison. The Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court have upheld the conviction. They now have a publicist and a web site and are raising money for his defense (even though the case is over).

Last year, Georgia passed a very strict new sexual predator law. Within the new law was flexibility for prosecutors for consensual sex between a 15 and 17 year old. However, I don’t believe the legislature anticipated permitting leniency for six young men with 40 prior arrests among them enjoying a semi-conscious teenager and a minor girl.

But the issue before the Georgia General Assembly today is SB 37. The bill would allow defense attorneys to petition judges to re-open every case of a convicted sex offender who engaged in sodomy, child molestation, aggravated child molestation, or enticed a child for indecent purposes if the convicted sex offender and their minor victim were less than four years apart. The victims involved could be as young as 13. I strongly oppose any legislative effort to require the courts to revisit over 1100 cases like Wilson’s. They violated the law. Police arrested them. District attorneys chose to prosecute them. Grand juries decided to indict them. Juries convicted them (when they could have found them “not guilty”�”�). Each of those convictions left a scarred victim – a minor child. The legislature should not second guess the process. We did not listen to the testimony or see the evidence. I hate to think of the emotional burden on thousands of victims, the cost to the taxpayers, and the delay in justice to pending court cases if this bill were to pass.

People seem to forget that two teenage girls, including a minor, are the victims. The 17 year old girl accused the young men of rape. She has never recanted. Sex with a semi-conscious female who cannot grant consent is rape. A minor cannot give consent. I stand with the girls. Genarlow Wilson is NOT the victim. The two girls in a hotel room with 6 stoned adults are the victims.

I also stand with future possible victims of politically correct apologists who want to turn loose convicted sexual predators. There is very real danger involved. One of Mr. Wilson’s buddies in the hotel room, while awaiting trial, impregnated a 12 year old and has been convicted of statutory rape.

Usually, society complains about sentences that are perceived as too soft. Granted, this sentence was harsh. But it was MANDATORY under the law. Life comes with accountability for our decisions. Genarlow Wilson could have selected different friends to hang with. Between them, they had more than 40 prior arrests. He could have joined millions of law-abiding teens all over the country enjoying New Years’ Eve without alcohol, drugs and sex. He could have left the hotel when “the fun”�”� started. Or Genarlow could have joined one of the young men and refused the sexual opportunities. He didn’t. He made a choice. Now his life has changed forever. That is very sad. I hope other young men and girls will learn from this tragedy and avoid his errors.


http://www.votejohnson.com/default.a...wsdescr&RI=184

[The Bobster]

http://cbs3.com/topstories/Genarlow.....2.627494.html

Ga. Teen In Oral Sex Case Off To College
CBS News Interactive: Ejumacation In America



ATLANTA (CBS News) ― Genarlow Wilson, whose case sparked protests after he was imprisoned for having consensual sex with a fellow teen, will attend Morehouse College with the help of a radio talk show host's foundation.

"Morehouse is a very good school," Wilson said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "It has a lot of history, so it's definitely an honor to be accepted."

Wilson was sentenced to 10 years in prison on felony charges for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at a 2003 New Year's Eve party in Douglas County; he was 17 at the time. His case became a cause celebre highlighting disparities in the criminal justice system.

The Georgia Supreme Court freed him on Oct. 26, after he had spent nearly three years in prison. The court called his sentence "cruel and unusual punishment."

The state Legislature eventually changed the law to make such cases a misdemeanor when they involved teenagers close in age.

Tom Joyner, a syndicated urban nigger radio host, said Wilson deserves a second chance.