United States v. Dexter Morris, Jr.

EDWARD R. KORMAN, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment, entered after a trial by jury, convicting the defendant, Dexter Morris, Jr., of two counts of depriving the constitutional rights of another in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242, and one count of willfully making a false statement to the FBI during the course of the investigation in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. The conviction arises out of the sexual abuse of two women by Morris, the then-Hamblen County Deputy Sheriff, during the routine traffic stops that led to the rape of one woman and the strip search of another. Although…