NC Court says NO to Retroactive Lifetime GPS

A North Carolina Appellate Court ruled that a twice convicted sex offender (1997 and 2006) could not be brought back to Court and retroactively sanctioned with lifetime GPS years later.

The defendant was dragged back into court in 2013, 7 years later, and ordered to wear a GPS. He argued that the requirement to wear the ankle bracelet violates his constitutional rights and he had to argue that case all the way to the US Supreme Court! In 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that he did have the right to challenge the obligation and so he went back to the State courts to argue.

After the trial court ruled against him in 2016, he appealed and just today, in a 2 to 1 decision in the Appellate Court, the requirement was deemed unreasonable!

Who says persistence does not pay off?