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Genarlow Wilson is the 17 year old Black high school student who has been imprisoned for 10 years for having consensual oral sex with a girl just two years his junior.

Before we talk about Genarlow Wilson, I’d like to say that we’re still contacting HBO about putting on the Sands and Sorrow documentary on Darfur sooner rather than later. Go here to for a copy of the letter I sent, you’re free to use it in part or in whole. A link to the article about that campaign is there too.

Back to Genarlow Wilson - Much like the Jena 6 Case, we see in Genarlow Wilson another example of a segment of white society trying to turn back the clock to Jim Crow and put Black people back in their place.

Wilson has been in prision since February of 2005. He was almost released earlier this year, but the district attorney would have none of it.

This article on Wikipedia (there aren’t many sites with recent updates) states that:

“In response to a petition of habeas corpus filed by Wilson’s attorneys, the Superior Court of Monroe County in the State of Georgia reduced Wilson’s charge to misdemeanor aggravated child molestation, ordered that his name not be placed on the sex-offender registry, and resentenced him to 12 months and with credit for time served…On July 9, 2007, the Georgia State Supreme Court set a hearing for Genarlow Wilson’s appeal for July 20, 2007, more than two months earlier than previously scheduled. The first motion was an appeal by the State Attorney General Baker of the Monroe County Superior Court judge’s decision to reduce Wilson’s felony conviction to a misdemeanor and release him. The second motion was brought by Wilson’s attorneys to have him released on bond while the appeals are heard which the Douglas County Superior Court judge denied. The Court is expected to issue a ruling sometime in September.”

Go to what seems to be an official Genarlow Wilson site for more history of the case. It surprisinly doesn’t have any updated since July though.

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