Ray v. State

| ¶ Appellant Wayne Travis Ray petitioned the Saline County Circuit Court to terminate his obligation to register as a sex offender pursuant to Arkansas Code Annotated section 12-12-919. He also filed a motion seeking to have that statute declared unconstitutional. The circuit court denied both requests. On appeal, Ray argues that section 12-12-919 is unconstitutional as applied to him under the equal protection clause and is an unconstitutional ex post facto law.

Arkansas Code Annotated section 12-12 — 919(b)(l)(A)(i) (Repl. 2016) provides that fifteen years after having been released from…