Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Genarlow Wilson's 10-Year Prison Sentence Set Aside as Cruel and Unusual
Punishment:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_10_21-2007_10_27.shtml#1193415573
Here's [1]the Georgia Supreme Court decision, which is 4-3. The bottom
line:
[W]e conclude that the habeas court properly ruled that Wilson�s
sentence of ten years in prison for having consensual oral sex with
a fifteen-year-old girl when he was only seventeen years old
constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
I'll have more when I finish reading the case. Thanks to [2]Aeon
Skoble (HNN) for the pointer.
References
1. http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/10/26/order.gw.pdf
2. http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/44088.html
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