I had a hunch. But since I wasn’t sure, I did just what you later recommended. I asked!

Sorry you got your underoos in a knot about it.

You mean, like this?
The jury imposed the sentence? Maybe I’m not familiar with the peculiarities of Georgia law, but isn’t sentencing in the judge’s domain?

Thanks for the tip, Jay. That’s just what I’ll do.

Judge. Jury. What’s the diff, eh?

Actually state law is cut and dry in this case. A habeas court may grant habeas relief, there is absolutely no authority for a habeas court to reduce or change the judgment (not sentence as Quaker The Picker of Nits makes a big deal of) of the trial court. Like I said, educate yourself.

Apparently the judge who gave the order disagrees with both of you.

And judges are always right. Cripes what a maroon.

Given that you’re taking the side of the opportunistic Sambo, I think I’ll put my money on the judge who took the honorable step of trying to end Wilson’s nightmare.

How is it honorable for a judge to act outside his discretion and to take matters into his own hands? It’s unbelievable that people would support such idiocy. Of course, if the situation were different and it wasn’t something that played up to your left wing sensibilities, you’d probably have a shit fit calling for any such judge to be impeached.

If Baker were interested in justice as opposed to pandering to the racist voting bloc, he’d have publicly bent over backward (if necessary) to find a legally palatable compromise with the judge’s order (whether or not the order follows the letter of the law).

Oh please. Spare everybody the melodramatic bullshit. This isn’t an episode of ‘Law & Order.’ But you continue to spout more ignorance because the fact of the matter is, Baker has brought together Wilson’s attorneys as well as the prosecutor in the original case to attempt to work out an arrangement short of the legislature doing something.

At any rate, this: “A black man acting brutally against another black man on behalf of a racist white power structure,” makes your point more clearly.

Also, an attorney general would not have the power to offer clemency or commute a sentence. And, to top it off, the Georigia governor doesn’t have pardon power.

The Georgia AG had and has plenty of roads to correct this injustice – at trial, on appeal, through commutation or by seeking clemency – that you are ignoring while claiming he should set this new judge straight on some supposed procedural error. He’s a sadist as he has allowed this injustice to take place at every step when he could have intervened earlier and even now. All of his actions have been one with keeping the kid in jail for having consensual sex as a teenager.

I wouldn’t expect Jay to understand, but a lot of us had sex as teenagers and … GASP … with other teenagers.

My guess is a guy named Thurbert never got laid as a teenager and feels others should be punished for his shortcomings. He’s a sick puppy in failing to act to stop and acting only to continue this outrageous sentence.

Nevertheless, between this case and the Duke case, attorneys general, district attorneys and judges should not be elected officials. Take away the elections, you take away the pandering.

That having been said, there are appropriate legal avenues to pursue to reverse this injustice. If the judge in this case did not pursue those avenues properly to get Wilson’s sentence overturned, it behooves the Georgia AG to call the judge on it lest some unintended consequences occur because of the precedent set by this move.

Jay’s right. The Georgia legislature f**ked up by not making the law retroactive.