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Douglas County DA David McDade is taking some heat for his handling of the Wilson case.

By Rob Leonard

Below is a story from the Associated Press. David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party. McDade is no porno kingpin, but a district attorney. And he says Georgia’s open-records law leaves him no choice but to release the footage because it was evidence in one of the state’s most turbulent cases ? that of Genarlow Wilson, a young man serving 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a girl when they were teenagers. McDade’s actions have opened him up to accusations that he is vindictively misusing his authority to keep Wilson behind bars ? and worse, distributing child pornography. “This has been a ferocious, vindictive prosecution of Genarlow Wilson,” said state Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Law Blog on July 12, 2007 (boomark / email).