Opinion
CRIMINAL ACTION NO. 2:13-00120
06-09-2020
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CURTIS WATKINS
SUPERVISED RELEASE REVOCATION AND JUDGMENT ORDER MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
On June 8, 2020, the United States of America appeared by Nowles Heinrich, Assistant United States Attorney, and the defendant, Curtis Watkins, appeared in person and by his counsel, Rhett H. Johnson, Assistant Federal Public Defender, for a hearing on the petition seeking revocation of supervised release submitted by United States Probation Officer Patrick M. Fidler. The defendant commenced a three-year term of supervised release in this action on August 28, 2019, as more fully set forth in the Judgment Including Sentence Under the Sentencing Reform Act entered by the court on April 18, 2014.
The court heard the admissions of the defendant and the representations and argument of counsel.
For reasons noted on the record of this proceeding, which are ORDERED incorporated herein by reference, the court found by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant has violated the conditions of supervised release in the following respects: the defendant committed a violation of law in that on January 21, 2020, he was found to be in possession with intent to distribute 5.4 grams of cocaine base in violation of federal, state and local law and in violation of his supervised release that he not possess or distribute controlled substances, as set forth in the petition on supervised release and by the court's findings on the record of the hearing.
And the court finding, as more fully set forth on the record of the hearing, that the violation warrants revocation of supervised release and, further, that it would unduly depreciate the seriousness of the violation if supervised release were not revoked, it is ORDERED that the supervised release previously imposed upon the defendant in this action be, and it hereby is, revoked.
And the court having complied with the requirements of Rule 32(a)(1)(B) and (C) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and finding, after considering the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3583(e), that the defendant should be confined to the extent set forth below, it is accordingly ORDERED that the defendant be, and he hereby is, committed to the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons for imprisonment for a period of TWENTY-FOUR (24) MONTHS, with no further term of supervised release imposed.
The defendant was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal.
The Clerk is directed to forward copies of this written opinion and order to the defendant, all counsel of record, the United States Probation Department, and the United States Marshal.
DATED: June 9, 2020
/s/_________
John T. Copenhaver, Jr.
Senior United States District Judge