Bernard Morris, a UTC student charged with planting surveillance cameras in dorm rooms, stands during a 2011 hearing.Bernard Morris, a former UTC student and resident assistant who installed cameras in students’ dorm rooms last year, will have to wait another month for his sentencing.
On Monday, Morris’ sentence was postponed until 1:30 p.m. on May 17 because the pre-sentence investigation report was unavailable.
“He’ll have been in custody 14 months by the time this has concluded,” Morris’ attorney Michael Caputo said afterward. “But, this gives the court an opportunity to hear from everybody.”
Last month, Morris pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated burglary and two related charges. The three University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students who filed victim impact statements were present at the hearing, but all of them declined to comment.
During Monday’s three-hour hearing, Morris’ older sister Kahlilia, who flew in from Miami, said that her brother was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, when he was about 9 years old.