United States v. Trevon Barcus

COLE, Chief Judge.

This matter presents a familiar question in our court: what special penalties are placed on sex offenders for violating the law? Trevon Barcus is a sex offender. After cutting off his ankle bracelet and fleeing to Texas, Barcus pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"). The district court sentenced him to 30 months of imprisonment and five years of supervised release with special sex offender conditions of supervision. Barcus now challenges his sentence on three fronts: (1) that the…