On October 26, 2007, the Georgia State Supreme Court ruled that Wilson's sentence was cruel and unusual ("grossly disproportionate"). He was released later that day, after serving over 2 years of his 10 year prison sentence in the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia.
Wilson had been convicted of aggravated child molestation because, at the age of seventeen, he had engaged in oral sex with a consenting fifteen-year-old at a New Year's Eve party
the bible belt is so backwards - couldn't pay me enough to live there with those evangelical wackos running the place
Thankfully, over the past 15-20 years, the so-called "Bible Belt" has shrunk down to where we only see the really absurd wackyness impacting people in GA, AL, MS and maybe a smattering of north Florida and Tennessee
My home state of Texas still has influence from the religious right, but over the past couple decades there's been enough migration from Northeners that it's allowed most areas of the state to shrug off the yoke of undue religious influence in the social and political communities.
But your Unity group isn't wacky huh Barman?
I'll add "Ayers" to the list of "A-words" which we don't need to raise the next time we share neighboring sports bar stools.
Well, OK. Just as long as you don't applaud his actions anymore. :nono5: