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Who is David McDade? Well he's the Douglas County District Attorney. In Georgia. Apparently his brand of "law" involves intimidation of victims, or more specifically a victim's mother. Let's review the details of the case.

It all starts with oral sex.

No really. Seems a seventeen year old boy got a blowjob from a fifteen year old girl. And because it was a blowjob and not actual sex it landed the boy, an "A" student and accomplished athlete in jail. For years. (If it had just been sex he would have gotten off lightly under a "Romeo and Juliet" provision.) Instead he got hit with "aggravated child molestation".

Now since then the Georgia legislature has fixed the loophole to make certain that this bullshit doesn't happen to anyone else - however - their justice system refused to apply it retroactively to the boy in prison. And their Supreme Court agreed.

Assholes.

Ahem, anyway moving on. The case was sent back and then thrown out by a state judge who characterized the case as a grave miscarriage of justice and ordered the boy finally free (it happened in 2005).

But, because he could, Attorney General Thurbert Baker (another jackass), appealed the ruling and kept the kid in jail.

Back to David McDade again. Turns out that the "victim" already said it was consensual and her mother never wanted to take the case to court in the first place. She even said so in a newspaper interview. The next day Darth McDade, tape recorder in hand, visits the mother and threatens her with charges of child neglect if she didn't cooperate by supporting the case against the boy.

And the Governor is suggesting that the whole case is "casing Georgia in a bad light".

Gee, ya think?