the charges are home invasion, armed robbery and criminal sexual conduct. the victim of the latter crime is a female college student. people versus rederick melton. people versus brandon townes. people versus james hodges jr. people versus dorian jones. for the record, we have all four defendants with their respective counsel. mr. becker. your honor, these kids are ready for sentencing at this point in time. i know we have a victim that wishes to mosquito and address the court all at once. i ll hear from the victim first, please.and address the c all at once. i ll hear from the victim first, please.sand address the t all at once. i ll hear from the victim first, please.peand address the court all at once. i ll hear from the victim first, please.kand address the court all at once. i ll hear from the victim first, please. and address the court all at once. i ll hear from the victim first, please. you do not need to state your name. go ahead, please. this whole crime
26-plus years on the bench, one of the worst cases that i ve seen. each one of the four defendants here pled guilty to criminal sexual conduct first degree, and whether they participated directly or were aiders and abettors, there s no difference in the law. all four of these defendants were clearly involved. any one of you could have intervened and stopped it short of a really horrific criminal sexual assault. though each of the four men has agreed to a plea that allows for maximum sentences, they have banked on the judge being lien yense. the first to be sentenced is rederick melton. lienie
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sexual assault. each of the four men agreed it a plea that allows for maximum sentences, they have banked on the judge being lenient. the first to be sentenced is rederick melton. first of all, on armed robbery, the sentence of this court that you be committed to michigan department of corrections for a term not less than 18 or more than 40 years. and then consecutive to that, you are to serve on home invasion first degree, sentence of not less than 7, no more than 20 years and then finally consecutive to home invasion first degree criminal sexual conduct first degree, serve, second home invasion not less than 18, no more than 40 years with the michigan department of corrections. the judge is sentences melton to a total of 43 to 100 years in state prison.
house together. three male victims were beaten and robbed. and a young woman was raped by the masked intruders. four men were arrested, and are now in the concept county jail. three pled guilty. but rederick melton has pled not guilty. when we asked him about details of the female victim s description of one of her attackers he shut us down. somebody dipping into my case? i think we re done here. put me in my room. somebody dipping in my case. i m done. two weeks later, melton agreed to speak with us again. the last time we talked to you, you kind of got a little angry. what was that about? it was about, like, i felt that they went to other co-defendants to get questions to ask me, like as if i had did the rape, basically accusing me. you know? i got accused. so, yes. i got upset. self weeks earlier, melton was placed in disciplinary segregation for fighting in