United States v. Ronald Leon Hall, Jr.

── United States v. Ronald Leon Hall, Jr. ── Court: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Date: May 19, 2026 Category: NEW USCA11 Case: 25-13478 Document: 23-1 Date Filed: 05/19/2026 Page: 1 of 8 NOT FOR PUBLICATION In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 25-13478 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus RONALD LEON HALL, JR., Defendant-Appellant. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida D.C. Docket No. 4:20-cr-00070-AW-MAF-1 ____________________ Before JORDAN, KIDD, and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: Ronald Hall Jr. was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment followed by an eight-year term of supervised release after commit- ting seven violations of his earlier term of supervised release. Hall USCA11 Case: 25-13478 Document: 23-1 Date Filed: 05/19/2026 Page: 2 of 8 2 Opinion of the Court 25-13478 appeals the District Court’s imposition of a new extended term of supervised release, citing his “past struggles to abide by supervision conditions.” We affirm. I. BACKGROUND A. On July 31, 1990, Hall and three co-defendants instigated a violent altercation with a group of passengers in a vehicle. One of Hall’s co-defendants fired a weapon into the vehicle, causing the occupants to flee. As they fled, Hall’s group fired additional shots, killing one victim. The assailants stole a wallet and ring from the lifeless victim. 1 Hall was convicted by a jury of second degree murder and strong armed robbery, for which he was sentenced to 27 years’ im- prisonment. Hall was conditionally released in 2006, but he pro- ceeded to violate the terms of his conditional release four times be- tween 2006 and 2020, resulting in his spending another eight years in state custody. On November 4, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Hall on one count of distributing heroin and at least five grams of metham- phetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B)(viii), and (b)(1)(C). Hall pleaded guilty pursuant to a written plea agreement. The District Court accepted his guilty plea and sentenced Hall to 1 According to the arrest warrant, Hall was the individual who stole the wallet and ring. Hall disputes this fact. USCA11 Case: 25-13478 Document: 23-1 Date Filed: 05/19/2026 Page: 3 of 8 25-13478 Opinion of the Court 3 48 months’ imprisonment followed by an eight-year term of super- vised release. Hall was released in March 2024. But within two days, Hall began testing positive for controlled substances. And by July, he had been arrested three times for violating state law. In November 2024, Hall admitted to three violations of the terms of his federal supervised release. The District Court sentenced Hall to time served plus three days’ imprisonment and renewed his eight-year term of supervised release. The District Court ordered Hall to spend his first six months of supervised release in a halfway house. In compliance with the Court’s order, Hall was quickly relo-