“The cause of justice was served in Georgia today when its Supreme Court found the outrageous sentence of Genarlow Wilson unconstitutional. Today is a day to celebrate a young man’s freedom, but also to rededicate ourselves to the task of correcting the glaring inequities in our criminal justice system that led to his ordeal. This is a task I will commit my Department of Justice to when I am President of the United States.”
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November 27, 2007 at 5:15 pm
[...] that he has carefully monitored and regularly addressed the Genarlow Wilson case in his stump speech while other candidates [...]