The courtroom was packed with supporters and cameras Friday as Georgia's top justices heard arguments over whether a young man serving a 10-year prison term for consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager should be freed.
The long punishment spurred angry protests and led the state to change the sentencing law.
A state judge in June ordered the young man freed, but because of an appeal by the state attorney general, Genarlow Wilson remains behind bars.
The Supreme Court justices will decide whether the state judge's order freeing Wilson should stand...More?
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July 20, 2007
Georgia's top court hears teen-sex appeal
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