Banks Co. man loses appeal to Ga. Supreme Court

ATLANTA - The state Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a northeast Georgia man who challenged Georgia's sex offender law.

The court unanimously upheld the conviction of Jerry Frazier, who had failed to register with the Banks County Sheriff's Office as a convicted sex offender.

Frazier appealed, calling the law ambiguous and unconstitutional because it increased the punishment he originally received as a child molester.

But the Supreme Court ruled that Frazier is being punished for a new crime and for breaking a new law, rather than the law he broke when he molested a child.