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The Jena Six The beating was one of many racially charged events that had occurred in late 2006. One earlier incident, the hanging of nooses on what has been dubbed the "white tree" on the Jena High School campus (the tree has since been cut down), has been held in newspaper articles to evoke the history of lynching in the South. On the other hand, the Los Angeles Times has quoted uninvolved townspeople as stating that the incident was just a "prank". Critics of how the case was handled, including civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have said that the arrests and subsequent charges, along with what they see as the lack of arrests and serious charges against white youths in Jena, were racially motivated. U.S. Attorney Donald Washington, who is himself black, has stated there is no evidence of unfair prosecution or sentencing. However, the only convictions so far have been overturned by a higher court on the ground that the defendant should have been tried as a juvenile, not as an adult. -from wikipedia
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Genarlow Wilson Wilson had been convicted of aggravated child molestation because, at the age of seventeen, he had been offered and received oral sex from fifteen-year-old at a New Year's Eve party. Both Wilson and the fifteen-year-old are African American. At the time of his conviction, provisions for similarity in age that allowed underage consent to be taken into account were only applicable to conventional sex. Because the case involved oral sex the consent of the girl was not at that time legally relevant -from wikipedia
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