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Just when I think the idiocy has subsided...
By Crobar in Neurognosis
November 2, 2007

I see something that infuriates me and is nothing more than an overt perversion of legislation meant to protect not prosecute horny teens.  It's nice to know that there is some semblance of logic in Georgia by having his sentence overturned.  However, it taking two years for this to happen is obscene.

Once our courts were envisioned as halls of justice to punish those who have committed a crime and punish them accordingly.  I suppose it's more about conviction numbers for DAs than it is justice anymore.  Or maybe it was because he was black and she was white?  It is the south and old prejudices do die hard.  Or it could be just the clutches of this country's Puritanical roots?  Whatever the reason, it was overkill and the kid shouldn't have even been in prison at all, he never should have even had to walk into a court room for something like this.  The time, money and resources that were consumed in this poor boy's ordeal could have supplied more funding, time and manpower to catch real criminals - sometimes I wonder about people's priorities.

I'm glad the kid is finally free but his life severely impacted by carrying the stigma of that initial conviction even though it was overturned.