S.R. asked Camp if he still believed that “guys like that you couldn’t help but want to give ’em life.” Camp responded, “Well, maybe I should. I’m much more sensitive to that after talking with you.” S.R. said, “I was just trying to talk you down out of the whole, you know, the racism thing, because at one point in time, you were like, I just can’t help, I want to give ’em all life, and I was like, oh God, I hope he’s not doing that. And I guess I tried to talk you, you know, a little bit out of that, because I know not everybody’s the same, but I felt like I had you feeling like that at one point in time.” Camp responded, “Yeah, I do think you had done like that.” On the call, S.R. asked Camp specifically about Norris, and asked, “What is your personal opinion when you see a black guy like that, I’m sure they were white girls, what do you think?” Camp responded, “Oh, yeah, mostly were white girls. I think almost all of them were white girls.” She further asked Camp whether black men pimping white women “just burns you up, you know, and you just couldn’t help but to want to give them [life].” Camp responded, “It does burn me up, but isn’t locking him up until, maybe, he’s 68 enough?” Camp concluded by explaining that “there are always two sides” to these cases.
Camp originally sentenced Norris to life in prison. The Eleventh Circuit reversed Camp and ordered a new sentencing hearing. Before Camp could preside over the resentencing, he was arrested in October 2010. The case was reassigned to another judge, who sentenced Norris to 35 years in prison. That sentence was upheld on appeal.
Camp, who retired a month after his arrest, was sentenced in March 2011 to 30 days in prison.
Norris’ case now is before U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle. Hinkle sits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, but he was specially assigned in 2013 to handle Norris’ case.
Updated with a response from the U.S. attorney’s office. The Eleventh Circuit ruling in Norris v. United States is posted below.
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