Genarlow Wilson Update

It seems Genarlow Wilson isn't going anywhere just yet. This case is going worldwide, Georgia and the US justice system in the spotlight, oh my, talk about a touch of the vapours.

"If any case fits into the definitive limits of a miscarriage of justice, surely this case does," he said.

"The fact that Genarlow Wilson has spent two years in prison for what is now classified as a misdemeanour, and without assistance from this court will spend eight more years in prison, is a grave miscarriage of justice."

However, Attorney-General Thurbert Baker said he would file an appeal against the ruling, stating that Georgia law did not give a judge authority to reduce or modify the sentence imposed by a trial court. more

No need for further comment.

Update and in depth from the Atlanta Journal.

no authority ... to reduce or modify the judgment of the trial court, in this case, the Superior Court of Douglas County."

Baker's decision angered civil rights activists, who held a news conference outside his office Monday and called on him to back off the appeal or resign.

"Go — as our designated champion of law and justice — and urge the courts to set this political prisoner free," the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a veteran civil rights activist wrote Baker on Thursday. "You are expected to be more than some robot obeying the whims [and errors] of some heartless machine... Where is your conscience, that you would allow this travesty to occur on your watch?" more

Nicely said.