I just saw this on CNN and cannot believe the original prosecutors are appealing the Supreme Courts decision on the basis of jurisdiction. This guy is still in jail because the prosecutors want to play tit-for-tat with the supreme court.

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Do what? Have consensual oral sex with someone?

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This would be valid except it was not his cell phone. It was a friends.

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Funny how the zeal of this prosecution/persecution shows the kid to be normal and the prosecutors sick child abusers, because that is all this sentence and charge constitutes under these facts. Nationally it seems everyone is bewildered at how absurd and malicious this prosecution is, including the citizens of Georgia. It's amazing how the prosecution is so lost on the obvious here. It's sick.

Well, I just found out from CNN that he is still in jail while the prosecutors and supreme court bickers. I dont know how valid that is at this present time, however.

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good observation.

He was put in jail, at 17, his GPA 3.2 - college offers. Now, he'll be released as an adult. Probably wont be able to get a job with his record (not easily) -
A life interrupted by an overzealous prosecution.

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Hear hear, I'm disgusted.

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"There were no D-Day Heroes in 1973" - Cold Chisel Khe Sanh

Hopefully some colleges will be able to accommodate him given the high profile nature of the case and the extreme circumstances.

He's identified as a convicted criminal in every database in the US and purging that is realistically impossible. College accommodation won't be near the barrier presented by society and the workplace in general. I lived in Georgia years ago and I note that the then antiquated mentality hasn't changed, only the players.

Wait, the appeals lawyer is named BJ? Irony!

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“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” -Dr. Carl Sagan

Good pick up, Crystal…and it’s too often the same here in Australia. It’s either Aboriginal man or a man of Middle Eastern appearance or other such racial identifiers, but rarely, if not never, do we read a white man. Then it’s just the generic description, a man.

Racism operates at a subliminal level in many spheres of our society, even if we have done away with manifestly discriminatory laws and practices. This is especially so in respect of our justice system.

In Australia, the statistics consistently show that Aboriginal people will be incarcerated at a higher rate than non-Aboriginal people for the same or comparable offences, or that they will receive a harsher sentence. Then these same statistics are often cited by some to rail about “Aboriginal crime”. This is not to say that there are not higher incidents of certain violent crimes in the Aboriginal community, but when it comes to violent crimes that mostly involve whites, it’s not termed “white crime”.

A Caucasian-centric paradigm still prevails today, which is demonstrable in such reports where the noun “man” is deemed to need to be qualified with an adjective if the subject is not white.

But to comment on this case...I recall a similar case in India where a teenager did something similar to this boy, video and all, and a naturalised American citizen, who was the head of an Indian Internet firm involved in the distribution of the video, faced a maximum five-year jail term under India’s laws. Condoleezza Rice intervened on his behalf, and a State Department spokesman stated ''this situation is one of concern at the highest levels of the US government."

India roiled by Internet sex case - The Boston Globe

With this boy facing the possibility of a ten-year sentence, I wonder if Condi will take the time to make a phone call to Georgia.

Tethys

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From what I can tell so far, Al Sharpton hasn't said anything about the case.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

Al Sharpton is certainly active in the Paris Hilton case though...
National Ledger - Paris Hilton Back in Jail Hospital, Al Sharpton Turns Wrath on Baca

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

The girl was (still is) white. Yeah, you heard it right. Sex between people of different skin color. Inconceivable isn't it? It didn't even cross your mind that it could happen, apparently. Too disgusting I guess.

Funny how you're also the one who says race isn't an issue, and that anyone who says otherwise is "that dumb".

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Tailor: But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world, and look at my trousers.
(Beckett)

Child pornography? Child exploitation? For a 15-to-17 years old kids filming themselves having consensual sex?

iamwhatiseem, you lack common sense just as much as the real prosecutors.

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Client: In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!
Tailor: But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look at the world, and look at my trousers.
(Beckett)