Do y'all recall the story about a Georgia high-school athlete being senetenced to ten years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party? The judge threw out his sentence and he was released. The prosecutors plan to appeal the judge's order.
Initally when I read that last line I was thinking . . .prosecutors can't appeal because the appeal will necessitate a retrial. But I thought about it and an appeal of the judge's order wouldn't require a new trial, just a hearing to discuss whether or not the judge's order was procedurally invalid. Now I'm confrused? The defense originally appealed Mr. Wilson's sentence on the grounds that it was cruel and unusual punishment.
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so what's your opinion on the appeal...besides the procedural stuff?
My opinion . . .
I don't have all of the facts but Based on the limited information that I have gathered from the media, I find it INTERESTING that the prosecutors are being so zealous about keeping Wilson behind bars for ten years and also placing him on the sex offenders registry (where he would be for the rest of his life, I believe)in light of the fact that the law that he was prosecuted under contained a number of exceptions that would appear to be applicable to his case, but for the fact that the legislature failed to mention oral sex as an exception. The legislature has since addressed this oversight.
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