The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a ruling by the N.C. Supreme Court that prevented sex offenders from using social media. In Packingham v. North Carolina, a convicted sex offender was arrested for using Facebook. The man, Lester Packingham, claimed a violation of his First Amendment rights. In the court’s opinion, social media websites are an essential forum in the...
RALEIGH — The N.C. Supreme Court has overturned a lower-court ruling and reinstated the conviction of a South Carolina sex offender who had moved to North Carolina and failed to register with the local sheriff as required by law. The Supreme Court held that the man had adequate notice to suspect that he needed to register in this state. Roy Bryant was convicted in 1991 in South Carolina of a sexual assault and sentenced to 10 years in prison. When he got out of prison in 2000 he joined a traveling fair. He decided to remain in Winston-Salem after being admitted in the hospital with a broken jaw.
