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Genarlow Wilson Freed!

By Smith Law Offices,

From CNN: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Former Georgia prison inmate Genarlow Wilson says he feels no "negative energy" toward the district attorney who prosecuted him for receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was a teenager himself.Genarlow Wilson and his mother, Juannessa Bennett, address reporters after his release Friday. Wilson, 21, was released Friday after serving more than two years of a 10-year sentence for aggravated child molestation -- a term the state Supreme Court found "grossly disproportionate to his crime" in a 4-3 decision. In an interview to be aired Monday, Wilson told CNN's Rick Sanchez that he turned down plea agreements because he did not want to have to register as a sex offender. Though he called his sentence "absurd," Wilson said he understood that prosecutors "were doing their job and they felt they were carrying out the law...continue to full post

Full post as published by SexCrimeDefender on October 29, 2007 (boomark / email).