Just.... bizarre

[tinyjo]

From The Magistrates Blog:

in Georgia, a seventeen year old boy has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the heinous crime of consensual oral sex with a 15 year old girl. There is to be no possibility of parole.

His website is at http://www.wilsonappeal.com/index.php - at least it seems from there that the law has been changed now but still. Crazy, crazy.

Comments

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Mandatory minimums always makes me think of the West Wing episode. I definitely agree that there should always be a point where a person can step in and say "No, in this case it's not appropriate". I think being a programmer re-enforces that because it's amazing how often you see what seems like a set of individually logical rules come out with a bad decision.