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[greybeta]

Okay, I've been on this class-study-work-sleep schedule, so I missed out on the Georgia Attorney General doing something controversial. Like, he filed an appeal on a judge reducing a sentence or something crazy like that. Without having heard of the specifics of the case, I thought the Attorney General was just doing his job. Could someone please explain to me why what he did was so heinous?

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[jeremyarc7.livejournal.com]

Boy has oral sex with a girl. Boy is 17. Girl is 15. Oral sex is consentual. Some idiot videos it. Case goes to court as parents of girl try to argue girl was raped. Tape shows that girl was pretty willing. Prosecutor tries to go the "jail-bait" route. Georgia law allows a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old to have sex. This route fails. But oh wait! Prosecutor finds a loophole! Due to some poorly written clause, oral sex can be declared child molestation! Clearly the 17-year-old is a perverted pedophile! Boy is sent to jail. Whole state is shocked. Law is immediately fixed but you can't just let the boy out. Democrats scream bloody murder about the boy's sentence. Even Republicans go on record saying the boy should be set free. Pressure mounts and the appeal wins. Boy is set free.

Ninety minutes later, the Attorney General has the boy thrown back in jail. Why? Who knows. Might see the race card get played with this part.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Let me play devil's advocate for a second. The law is the law. Only the governor has the power to pardon, correct? So isn't the Attorney General preserving the system of checks and balances here?

[khiron1416.livejournal.com]

Well, yes.
But one might also argue that justice would be better served by a different outcome. And, arguably the attorney-general may have some responsibility in that area.
Also, the young man, even if pardoned, still is a sex offender and must be on that august registry his whole life. There were 5 other guys who did the same thing at that party but pled guilty to a lesser charge and they are now irrevocably sex offenders. Boy-in-jail pled not guilty to avoid the sex-offender part and got the book thrown at him. That's where the injustice comes in.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. So are people just mad over the fact that the Attorney General is a complete @$$hole?