Many Teens Don't Know the Law About Sex

The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in Georgia — and in many other states — it's still a crime for teenagers to have sex, even if they're close in age.

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Georgia Court Frees Man in Teen Sex Case

A former high school football star given 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager was freed Friday by Georgia's highest court, which ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Genarlow Wilson spent two years behind bars in the case that led to widespread protests of racism and heavy handed justice.

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Teen Sex Case in Limbo for 3 More Weeks

A man in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 will stay there for at least three more weeks despite a judge's ruling Monday that he should be released, his lawyer said Tuesday.

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10-Year Sentence for Teen Sex Thrown Out

A former high school football star who became a national symbol for the extremes of getting tough on sex offenders was ordered released from prison Monday by a judge who called his mandatory 10-year sentence for consensual teen sex "a grave miscarriage of justice."

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Court Hears Appeal in Teen Oral Sex Case

A man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 should have to serve out the widely criticized mandatory term, a prosecutor told a judge Wednesday.

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Black & White: The Double Standard in America

The following is a transcription of a phone call on the Thom Hartmann Show from September 3, 2008: Thom: "James, in Hope, Arkansas. Hey James." James: Tom, am I on? Thom: You are on the air, James. James, you are

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Wilson, the Douglasville teen who spent two years in prison for having consensual sex with a teenager, will attend Atlanta's Morehouse College beginning next week, courtesy of the Tom Joyner Foundation, an educational non-profit founded by the nationally syndicated radio personal …

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A crowd gave a hero's welcome to a 20-year-old freed from a 10-year prison sentence imposed on him for having underage sex in a hotel room at a New Year's Eve party.

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Genarlow Wilson had served two years of a 10-year sentence in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.

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Genarlow Wilson is in the car in front of me, right now, as I type these words. It all seems so strange, and yet so normal, just another car, going along with traffic. He's with his mother and his sister, rolling down Interstate 75 North.

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ATLANTA - Georgia's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a young man who has been imprisoned for more than two years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.

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Georgia's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a young man who has been imprisoned for more than two years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager. The court ruled 4-3 that Genarlow Wilson's 10-year sentence was cruel and unusual punishment. ...

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Federal law requires states to create registries of offenders convicted of sex crimes or offenses against children. It also requires local law enforcement agencies to provide information to schools, day care centers and parents about sex offenders living in the community.

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On Thursday, the corporate media turned out in impressive numbers to cover the pro-justice march in Jena, Louisiana.  But last Saturday, just five days before, that same corporate media barely addressed the anti-war march in Washington DC.

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....Speaking at an awards banquet for the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference Sunday night, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama weighed in on the hot-button case surrounding Genarlow Wilson, the young man who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for hav …

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The defense of Georgia sex offender law has placed the state's attorney general in the awkward position of arguing to the state Supreme Court that the law cannot be applied retroactively while arguing in a separate case in federal court that the law's retroactive provisions are l …

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OK, so I think most folks on Newsvine know something about the case of Genarlow Wilson, but it can't hurt to keep it high in our minds. What's more, this article goes on to tie in Irish sex-ed statistics, and makes the argument that we really owe our kids a little more.

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For those of you slow on the uptake, there has never been a white teenager charged and convicted of aggravated child molestation for consensual sex with his underage girlfriend in the State of Georgia.

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CaseProsecutors in Genarlow Wilson case overstep bounds in effort to defend themselves, their case

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Penalty too severe, and sex was consensual, she says; prosecutors suspect defendants' supporters have been pressuring her

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Genarlow Wilson, whose 10-year prison sentence for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old when he was 17 was voided by a judge Monday, will spend at least three weeks in prison, according to a decision announced Tuesday.

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For now, he's seeking bond in oral sex case

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Injustice In Georgia: The Case of Genarlow Wilson, Part 2

In January, I wrote about Genarlow Wilson, a Georgia teenager and honor student who was sentenced to 10 years hard time for consensual oral sex with another teenager .... because Georgia law at that time defined his "crime" as a felony, aggravated child molestation.

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A judge today ordered that Genarlow Wilson be freed from prison, where he has spent more than two years for receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A judge on Monday voided a 10-year sentence for a man accused of having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. Genarlow Wilson was instead given a 12-month misdemeanor sentence with credit for time already served.

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Genarlow Wilson was 17 years old, a bright, black student heading for college, when he was videoed at a New Year's Eve party receiving consensual oral sex from a girl of 15.

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Genarlow Wilson is still serving ten years for BJ. I recently blogged about the insanity of sentencing this teenager to ten years for consensual oral sex with another teen. Wilson is still behind bars despite recent efforts to pass legislation to free him.

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