Georgia

1) Georgia is a bunch of ...

2) the Fox News version of this story, which is not a great source, but what can you do, is that this was a case of gang rape but there was not sufficient evidence for the jury to convict on the forcible rape so they nailed him on the sodomy charge.

Hey Lat,

You still against gay marriage? Hope you've evolved since your Crimson days...

Yeah I find it hard to believe that legal scholars/attorneys can find justification AGAINST gay marriage. What about equal protection? Discrimination based on sexual preference/identity? that's BS.

I hate when people's "morality" decisions or whatever brainwashed bible beliefs take over rational, legal thought.

As for GA...my god, and atlantans want to know why there's so much vitriol for them?

This post isn't by Lat, it's by Billy Merck (ATL contributor and occasional guest blogger).

"Treating Wilson differently from the other young men in the case might be unfair, he said.

'How would they be treated fairly if this issue regarding the Wilson young man is adjudicated differently? What is our responsibility to them?' Perdue asked. He called it 'a very difficult situation.'"

In other words: "Well gosh, we lynched them other boys, ain't it disrespectful not to lynch their brother as well?"

Gee, gubner, maybe you should PARDON THE OTHER KIDS TOO!!!

The story about fantasy baseball is from August 2006. Does anyone at ATL pay attention to little details like this?

Yeah, it's on his website though. Read the profile on him (NYT) re his days and opinions as a Harvard undergrad. Is he still that scary?

11:09: Yes, the article is old, and I don't know why it was the one linked to, but there has been recent news (of sorts) related to the case:

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2007/06/11/daily50.html?surround=lfn

(The 8th Circuit heard oral argument on the appeal yesterday)

There were several aggravating facts which led to the seemingly harsh sentence, including that it was essentially gang rape, with all the other boys pleaing out. But it makes a much better story that two young love birds got caught on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line.

How did Lat (or I guess his surrogates) miss the Monica Goodling story in this morning's WaPo!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/14/AR2007061400809_pf.html

"
The Justice Department officials, in a letter released yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, said their inquiry into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys includes an examination of a meeting Gonzales held in mid-March with his then-aide Monica M. Goodling, who testified last month that the attorney general's comments during the session made her feel "a little uncomfortable."

The topic of discussion at the meeting was what had happened in the months leading up to firings of the U.S. attorneys, and Gonzales recounted his recollection of events before asking for her reaction, according to Goodling's congressional testimony in May. She said Gonzales's comments discomfited her because both Congress and the Justice Department had already launched investigations of the dismissals.

Goodling's account attracted attention partly because Gonzales had told Congress that he could not remember numerous details about the prosecutors' dismissals because he had purposely avoided discussing the issue with other potential "fact witnesses."
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9:31 / 11:29: I think we've had this discussion before. Lat is gay.

The fact that he wrote some anti-gay things over a decade ago should not be surprising. As the New York Times profile of him notes, Lat comes from a conservative Catholic (Filipino) family.

Should we really be surprised that Lat was once a little self-loathing?

Yeah, another Asian attorney (HLS), raised Catholic, who said some very homophobic things early in my time at HLS while fearing my own sexuality. Now I'm an out lesbian. If Lat is gay, I'd understand exactly where he was coming from - would not hold it against him.