Supreme Court of Georgia

Park v. State

March 4, 2019305 Ga. 348

Summary

The court held that constitutional challenges to Park’s classification as a sexually dangerous predator were barred by res judicata because he had previously litigated, or could have litigated, those claims in the classification-review proceedings. It further held that the statute facially authorized an unreasonable, warrantless, lifelong GPS search of sexually dangerous predators who had completed their criminal sentences, violating the Fourth Amendment. The judgment was therefore affirmed in part and reversed in part.