Georgia court frees man in teen sex case
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A former high school football star given 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager was freed Friday by Georgia's highest court, which ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
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The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday ordered the release of a man who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was two years older than she was.
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A man found guilty 17 years ago of murdering his parents as a teenager was freed from prison Thursday, days after an appeals court overturned the conviction and ordered a retrial because of new evidence.
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The case of Genarlow Wilson, now serving a 10-year mandatory prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as a teen, is just the latest to make the state's attorney general the target of protests.
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A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate prompted a massive civil rights protest here walked out of a courthouse Thursday after a judge ordered him freed.
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Two more young men have been freed after serving time in jail for a case involving a 17-year-old who had consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl.
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A man wrongly jailed for 18 years in a child rape case was released from prison Tuesday after new DNA testing cleared him of the crime.
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An Indian court bails a schoolboy who allegedly recorded his sex act with a girl of 16 on his mobile phone.
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Genarlow Wilson had served two years of a 10 year sentence in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.
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Robert E. Chambers Jr., who served 15 years in prison for killing an 18-year-old woman in a case that became known as the &quot;preppie murder,&quot; was released on bail today after his arrest
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A man is being held on false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy charges after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met online text-messaged his family claiming he was being held against his will on the man's west Georgia farm, police said.
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A man whose murder conviction was based on gruesome sketches he made as a 15-year-old boy was freed from prison on Tuesday after DNA evidence from the body was found to match the victim's ex-boyfriend and not the convicted man.
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An appeals court Friday vacated the remaining conviction of a teenager accused in a violent, racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana, his attorney said. Mychal Bell and five others were initially charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder in connection with the beating of a white student.
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A black teenager whose prosecution over the beating of a white classmate in a Louisiana school prompted a big civil rights protest walked free from court on bail last night after a prosecutor dropped an attempt to try him on adult charges.
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New York's highest court ruled Tuesday that the state wrongly confined convicted sex offenders in psychiatric facilities after their prison sentences ended.
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A man who has spent 19 years behind bars for rape and murder was cleared by new DNA testing and will be released from prison, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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A teen freed from prison this year after his life sentence for killing a young playmate was overturned received an extended probation period Friday after violating his curfew, and was freed once more.