JUSTICE DANGLED AND WITHDRAWN. Radley Balko noted yesterday that Genarlow Wilson -- who was convicted to a ten-year prison sentence for receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old when he was 17 -- had his sentence reduced to less than time already served yesterday by Judge Robert H. Wilson (no relation). However, he unconscionably remains in prison because the state -- rather than taking the long overdue hint to do the right thing -- has appealed Wilson's ruling. This case has been a major prosecutorial, legislative, and now executive failure, and hopefully the appeal will be rejected and Wilson finally freed from his unjust and arbitrary sentence.
--Scott Lemieux
