Most Americans are now aware of the plight of Genarlow Wilson. Three years ago, the now 21-year-old African-American was sentenced to 10 years in prison under a Georgia law that turned his act of consensual oral sex into "aggravated child molestation" and subjected him to a harsh mandatory jail sentence.

Incredibly, it was "my" law under which Wilson was convicted and sentenced. It was never, ever the law's intention to lock up young people for 10 years for consensu ...

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