James Freese II, who was sentenced in 2015 in Alpena to 10 to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting numerous women and girls between 1991 and 2012, shouldn’t be electronically monitored for the rest of his life, according to the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Freese asked the court to change the terms of his sentence, claiming he shouldn’t have been subjected to the lifetime electronic monitoring that later became a standard part of sexual assault sentences but wasn’t mandated at the time.

The appeals court agreed, sending Freese back to Alpena court to remove that requirement from his sentence.