North Carolina's highest court says it's constitutional for the state to require people convicted of the most serious sex offenses to be monitored perpetually by satellite-linked bracelets. But the influence of Friday's state Supreme Court majority opinion may be muted, since a new law will soon reduce lifetime GPS monitoring of such “aggravated offenders” and others convicted of sex crimes to 10 years. The majority overturned a lower appeals court decision that monitoring was reasonable only for the time the named defendant was on post-release supervision. A dissenting justice called the prevailing decision a “soon-to-be-irrelevant conclusion" since the law takes effect in December.