The 15 year-old girl, who did not drink or smoke pot that night, does and has always said that this act was consensual. In other words, she was not a “victim” as Johnson claims.

Wilson did not have intercourse, abusive or otherwise, with anybody who was passed out or barely conscious. Wilson did have consensual intercourse the same night with another 17 year-old girl. Despite Johnson’s insistence that he knows otherwise, the jury found Wilson not guilty on rape charges, and the alleged rape victim, says that Wilson did not rape her.

Wilson, who again, had never been arrested before, didn’t plead out because he didn’t think that receiving a blow job should be illegal. He also didn’t want to be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life. I wouldn’t have pleaded out either.

Erick writes, “The fact is, as Eric Johnson said, the jury got him based on the 15 year old, but they really convicted him based on what he did with the 17 year old.” Of course, this is not fact, but merely speculation on the part of Senator Johnson and accepted without question by Erick. The fact is that members of the jury have actually sought to have the conviction overturned when they learned of the draconian sentence.

Eric and Erick have confused “facts” with facts.

The next to the last thing legislatures want to do is get caught being racist. ?

Or, get caught running the court system?

Or, get caught giving the Governor a $100,000 back dated tax break?

Or, get caught taking classes in Scientology?

Or, get caught having sex with a lobbyist in a public place? (Especially after putting forward a special slice of legislation for that lobbyist)

What is second on the list of things lawmakers don’t want to do?

(sarcasm intended)

By God if we are going to sit here and talk about the facts we are going to talk about all of them.

We shouldn’t be arguing over the Genarlow Wilson Martyrdom campaign. We should be arguing over the sentencing structure.

And, again, he was given time to take a deal and refused. He played the odds and lost.

Based on what was reported in the CNN video everything Senator Johnson has been saying at this point is exaggerated to put it kindly.

There were two girls involved. One was a 15 year old and it appears there was consensual oral sex involved.

But the other was a 17 year old girl who was barely conscious when Genarlow and his buddies decided to have sex with her.

The buddies all plead out and Genarlow refused. The tape, which I haven’t seen but have had described for me, makes it clear that in those moments when the 17 year old girl was lucid, she was not consenting.

It’s the stuff on the tape that damned Genarlow before the jury.