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Oct 26, 2007

Good news for a change

by Liberty and Power

Genarlow Wilson is free. Strikes me as slightly odd to use the 8th Amendment as a rationale, but IANAL, and in any case I think justice is served by this outcome.

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh argues that the rationale works pretty well. His analysis here at VC.