she says you just need to focus your energy into good ways, not bad ways. i just want to do good. i want to make my mom proud. [ bleep ] i m all in. coming up scott dipiazzi s losses. you owe me one more. last time we talked to you, you got angry. and melton explains his anger.
gamble snacks purchased from the commissary. dipiazza relied on his mother to purchase those for him. she told me, you re destined for greatness. you just need to focus your energy in good ways and not in to bad ways. i just want to do good. i want to make my mom proud. get them all in. 16. coming up give you one more. scott has lost his mount, and last time we talked you got angry. rederick melton explains his anger.
date, because his case is now resolved. he pled guilty to breaking and entering and sentenced to one year in the kent county jail in addition to the time already served. i knew i would get a year, but i thought he would take into account my eight months and say, okay. you sat eight months. i m going to sentence you to four months in the kent county jail, but it didn t happen that way. it s a long sentence. you know? sentencing is also finally insight for four other inmates. nearly a year earlier, brandon townes, james hodges and dorian jones all pled guilty to charges related to a home invasion robbery in which a female college student was raped. they could not be sentenced until the case of the fourth co-defendant was resolved. rederick melton proclaimed his
armed robbery and criminal sexual conduct. the victim of the latter crime was a female college student. the state versus rederick melton, people versus brandon townes. people versus james hodges. people versus dorian jones. the record we have all four defendants with 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 speak 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 has honestly been the hardest struggle i ve ever been through. i ve dreaded this whole process, dreaded it for the fact i have to look into these faces, lost countless hours of sleep trying to avoid the nightmares of that night replaying in my head over and over again.
rederick melton has proclaimed his innocence. he s voluntary spent the past seven months in a sparse segregation cell preparing for trial, but now, there has been a major development and melton is headed back to general population. after nearly a year of proclaiming his innocence, melton has changed his plea. now that i ve already pled guilty, i m going to go to prison, so i don t want to be over there until i raid it out, so i just came over here. what made you decide to plead guilty? more evidence was at the last minute was brought up against me, so i decided to swallow my pride on some of the charges i didn t do for sure, and take the plea, you know, pled no contest, fight it on appeal. what did you plead to exactly? i pled guilty to all charges except for csc. i pled no contest to that, those three charges. are you saying that you were actually there that night? i m saying, yes, i was