Lapse in Judgment
Just the latest in the sordid case of a 17-year-old boy given 10 years for oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. DA cites public records law as he hands out copies of a teen sex tape. But he also thinks it bolsters his position in the highly controversial case:
ATLANTA - David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party.
McDade is no porno kingpin, but a district attorney. And he says Georgia’s open-records law leaves him no choice but to release the footage because it was evidence in one of the state’s most turbulent cases - that of Genarlow Wilson, a young man serving 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a girl when they were teenagers.
McDade’s actions have opened him up to accusations that he is vindictively misusing his authority to keep Wilson behind bars, and worse, distributing child pornography.
“This has been a ferocious, vindictive prosecution of Genarlow Wilson,” said state Sen. Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Democrat. “What is going on is a vendetta.”
McDade, who is district attorney in Douglas County, in suburban Atlanta, said that while the law required him to release the video, he also believes the footage helps his case by showing that Wilson is not the squeaky-clean football star and honor student portrayed by his supporters.
Lapses in judgment all around. McDade, however, is an adult. A Nifonging may be in order.
Welcome, Punditeers! Always good to see you. Make yourself at home. We’re laughing with Diane Sawyer, not at her, I’m sure. In case you missed it, or your own newspaper didn’t think you needed to read it, the president said something yesterday. In other business, ah … love. I’m guessing this guy could use some. And what is it about women with guns?
Topics: crime, punishment
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:23 am on Friday, July 13, 2007
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July 13th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Wow. What an ass.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:46 am
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July 13th, 2007 at 10:06 am
How can one contact Mr. McDade to request a copy?
July 13th, 2007 at 10:28 am
What the hell is the matter with people! I agree. What an ass.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Larry Flynt offers $1 million for the DVD rights… but only if McDade narrates…
July 15th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Let him rot I say. Do we have no self control?