Posted on 07/05/2007 6:08:06 PM PDT by Daffynition
If he were 25 or 30 it would be a different case, but he was only 17. In most states he would still be under the age of consent. The sentence I feel was over kill, as does the judge who overturned the sentence.
The other men took the plea deals. Wilson chose a trial and was convicted. The sentence was mandatory. AGAIN, even after conviction, he was offered a plea deal. He REFUSES. He wants to be declared innocent even though a jury found him guilty. Until he pleads guilty, he'll stay where he is. It's up to him.
AL is not right all that often but this time he is correct.
This guy is NOT innocent. He can get out by pleading guilty to what is on the tape. He won't. He's where he is by HIS CHOICE.
And you'd be incensed if it was an 18 yr old that took advantage of a "slow" 15 yr old.
This is NOT a choir boy. Hotel room, drugs, booze, one girl too drugged/drunk to know what's happening and one not bright enough to know she's being used. Stellar human you've chosen to champion.
Your neck is showing.
Nope. And I find your defense of this guy disgusting.
Play that race card, hustler.
He’s a ‘martyred saint’ to them. Imagine the culture that sees a ‘wannabe gangster’ as a saint. Oh yeah, same culture that views tupac and mumia as heroes.
A 15 yr old girl is not old enough to consent to anything. She's not old enough to drive, can't enter a legally binding contract, can't marry...........but you believe that she can "consent" to service 6 boys. Even though she was "slow". Can she "consent to have sex with a 20 yr old? 25? 30? 50?
This ain't Romeo and Juliette. It was 6 guys looking to get some. One girl was semi-conscious and one was "slow".
Again, he was ON TAPE but wants to be declared innocent. Even under the rewritten law he's guilty. He doesn't want to be guilty of a misdemeanor. He wants to be declcared INNOCENT. He's NOT.
AGAIN: The attorney general's office disclosed that as recently as this past weekend Douglas County offered Wilson's attorneys a plea deal that would have allowed Wilson to avoid a criminal record and inclusion on the sex offender registry once his sentence had been completed. The plea deal would have also allowed Wilson to serve a "substantially shorter" prison sentence, possibly leading to his "release based upon time already served."
Wilson, through his attorneys, refused those offers.
The other guys pleaded guilty. This one thinks he's special.
Name them.
I believe that he should have been convicted of rape of the 17 yr old. They all should. They got away with it.
I'd give you more links but then I'd have to explain them.
And you didn’t answer. Can a 15 yr old consent to sex with a 20 yr old? 25? 30? 50?
Genarlow Wilson was also an honor student and a leader on his high school’s football team. He was headed to college.
Despite the fact that — by the legal definition — the 15-year-old girl could not consent to having oral sex with 17-year-old Wilson, the video makes it clear that she was acting of her own free will.
I don’t give a damn about Al Sharpton — Genarlow Wilson does NOT deserve 10 years in prison.
How about an answer to this?
The simple fact is that most of your claims seem to have legally ‘disappeared’ in this case
I say again: Name them.
You didn’t get laid in high school and you still harbor resentment maybe?
Insult. That last resort when losing.
Are you married? Dating? If so is he/she 2 years younger or older than you? TEN years in prison.
The age of consent is 16.
Why don't you answer the questions?
And you haven't addressed that he could be released if he'd take the plea bargain...........even after being convicted by a jury. But he won't.
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