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In this photo provided by the family of Genarlow Wilson he is shown in a portrait at the age of 17. Wilson is serving 10 years without the possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty of aggravated child molestation for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl in 2003. (Wilson Family Phot/AP Photo)
The lawyer for Genarlow Wilson said today that a New York investment manager and ten other business leaders have volunteered to post a one (m) million dollar bond to free Wilson from prison while his appeal is pending.
Attorney BJ Bernstein called on Douglas County District Attorney David McDade to reconsider his opposition to bond for Wilson. Wilson remains in prison pending a bond hearing July 5th.
Bernstein said some but not all those who contributed to the bond fund have agreed to go public. She said the investment manager is Whitney Tilson, founder and managing partner of T2 Partners LLC and Tilson Mutual Funds. He was a co-founder of Teach For America and is on the cover of the July 2007 Kiplinger's Magazine.
Wilson, now 21, was convicted of aggravated child molestation stemming from a 2003 New Year's Eve Party where he was captured on videotape receiving oral sex from a 15-year-old girl. He was 17 at the time. He is now serving a mandatory ten-year prison sentence.
In 2006, Georgia lawmakers changed the law Wilson was sentenced under but the state's top court said it could not be applied retroactively.
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3314309&page=1
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