We previously shared with you that the Eufaula killer in an awful bank robbery last month had actually been convicted in Sapulpa back in 2006. Turns out, there’s a lot more to that story about how he was wrongfully freed from prison. Twice.
Officials from Creek and Tulsa counties, as well as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, maintain that they correctly followed procedure to get Cedric Lamont Norris into their custody to serve sentences for multiple robbery, burglary and property theft convictions he received in at least five counties among two states.
But a Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman told the Tulsa World that Norris, 39, had been released on parole on Jan. 25, 2007, and March 22, 2012. At both times he should have been in an Oklahoma prison for 2006 robbery convictions in Tulsa and Creek counties.
Read the full story at TulsaWorld.com
