Supreme Court sex offender ruling has impact on WNC
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (WLOS) —
A recent Supreme Court ruling on sex offenders is already having an impact in the mountains after the justices determined sex offenders should be able to possess social media accounts.
“We did have a pending case here in Henderson County where the alleged violation was that the defendant had set up a social media account on a couple of social media outlets,” Henderson County District Attorney Greg Newman said.
According to the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office and court records, Christopher Letchworth was arrested May 24, accused of creating and maintaining a personal social media account on Facebook.
At the time, that was illegal.
“In light of the Supreme Court decision, we, naturally, had to go back and we now had to dismiss that because they said that law was unconstitutional.”
I wonder if the county financially compensated the gentleman for the illegal arrest? It seems that the ‘authorities’ make the arrest knowing that it is just a matter of time until the law/ordinance is ruled unconstitutional…i.e. Brevard County, hold the person/s in jail for a period of time…disrupting their life, and then letting them go with just an “Oh well”.
if you can not go after the state or county law then maybe go after the officer. file civil court on the law officer.