On April 30, 2007, "The New York Times" published another editorial noting that Georgia's legislature had closed the loophole in the law and that if Wilson were tried today he would now be facing only misdemeanor charges for the same act. However, the State Senate adjourned for the year without taking up a bill allowing judges to review previous cases like Wilson's and Wilson continued to serve a mandatory 10-year sentence. The "Times" also noted that Wilson's attorneys had applied for a writ of "habeas corpus" with the U.S. Supreme Court and it urged the Court to grant it. In the same editorial, the "Times" lambasted prosecuting district attorney David McDade for continuing to publicly charge that Wilson participated in gang-raping a different 17-year-old girl, even though he was acquitted of charges in that case.