This is bothering me

I'm sure most of you have heard of Genarlow Wilson. If you haven't he's been serving something like a 10 year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15 year-old girl; he was 17. In Georgia, apparently that's a felony. Do I think he deserves 10 years, probably not. Maybe a good butt-kicking, but 10 years seems excessive.

That's not really the part that's bothering me; the oversight of some critical details by the media is what is. The reason that I'm writing a 2nd entry today is because I just saw another bit on CNN about this "poor, angelic" kid. I guess there was a rally today in Atlanta calling for "equal justice" and for him to be freed or his sentence reduced (WHICH OF COURSE I DON"T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH!!!!). The media makes this kid look like a card carrying member of the local MENSA-Saturday-morning-chess-club. They always seem to overlook the fact that this kid was at a hotel party getting drunk (accepted information) and stoned (speculative; no concrete evidence) with a bunch of other kids while engaging in orgies of all manners. To top it off, the fools video taped the whole thing. It sounds more like a Sturgis Rally rather than the game of "spin the bottle" the media makes it seem like.
I think Michel Martin has some great commentary on this and the Duke Lacrosse cases.
Should the kid be locked up for 10 years? No...but c'mon, he certainly isn't this.

-N