Reported / Citable
Background
Timothy Earl Norris was convicted in 1994 of kidnapping and aiding and abetting, and using a firearm during a crime of violence and aiding and abetting. He received consecutive prison terms totaling 322 months. After completing that imprisonment in 2017, Norris began supervised release, which was revoked twice for technical violations before his current supervision term began in April 2020.
The government’s amended revocation petition alleged eight violations, including failure to update his sex-offender registration and address, failure to submit monthly supervision reports or report a change of residence, failure to participate in mental-health and sex-offender treatment, unauthorized contact with minors, and violation of residential-reentry-center rules.
The Court’s Holding
At the revocation hearing, Norris consented to the magistrate judge taking his plea and admitted that the petition’s allegations were true. Based on those admissions, Magistrate Judge J. Boone Baxter found that Norris had violated the conditions of his supervised release.
The magistrate judge recommended that the district court accept Norris’s plea, revoke supervised release, and impose 10 months in prison. The recommended term would run consecutively to the sentence Norris had just received in Case No. 5:25-cr-00032-RWS-JBB-1, with no additional supervised-release term in this case. The magistrate judge also recommended requesting that the Bureau of Prisons designate FCI Texarkana. The parties waived objections to the recommendations.
Key Takeaways
- Norris admitted all eight alleged supervised-release violations.
- The recommended sentence was the parties’ agreed disposition and was consistent with the magistrate judge’s consideration of the applicable Sentencing Guidelines.
- The recommendation calls for 10 months in prison, consecutive to Norris’s sentence in a separate case, and no further supervised release in this case.
Why It Matters
The report illustrates that admitted violations of registration, reporting, treatment, contact, and residential-placement conditions can support revocation of supervised release and an additional consecutive prison term.
Because this document is a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, it recommends rather than itself enters the final revocation judgment and sentence. The parties’ waiver of objections and Norris’s waiver of his right to appear and speak before imposition of the recommended sentence position the matter for action by the district judge.