Williams v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether or not the trial court retroactively applied any part of Arkansas’ Sex Offender Registration Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 12-12-901 et seq. (Repl. 1999 and Supp. 2001), in revoking the suspended sentence of appellant John Williams. We hold that it did not, and affirm.

We begin with a chronology of the events leading up to this appeal. On December 20, 1991, Williams was convicted of third-degree sexual assault in Wisconsin; on February 3, 1992, he was sentenced, among other things, to two years’ probation. During his period of…