The Democratic majority on North Carolina's supreme court ruled to let a child porn offender go free on a technicality and allowed serial sexual offenders to avoid GPS monitoring in two decisions released in August. The decisions illustrate a major shift in the state's supreme court, which has swung decisively into Democratic hands. Democrats hold a 6-1 majority on the state supreme court, up from the 4-3 advantage liberals had before Anita Earls's election. The sole GOP holdout is Judge Paul M. Newby. The court's new composition might help explain its reasoning in the two decisions handed down in August;...