Like Genarlow Wilson, Joshua Widner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a sexual encounter with a fellow teenager that his lawyers say today would be considered a misdemeanor. But while a Georgia judge Monday tossed Wilson's sentence as "a grave miscarriage of justice," the state Supreme Court last year said Widner's sentence "does not unconstitutionally shock the conscience." The difference in the rulings suggest there may not be an easy legal fix to these matters.
June 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Mercer University law professor Sarah Gerwig-Moore represents a young man few know but whose plight will sound very familiar.
Like Genarlow Wilson, whose highly publicized case this week reached a new level of drama, Joshua Widner was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a sexual encounter with a fellow teenager that his lawyers say today would be considered a misdemeanor. In both cases, courts have found that neither girl was forced to give oral sex.
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