rederick melton proclaimed his innocence. he has voluntarily spent the past seven months in a sparse segregation cell preparing for trial. 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 goin to go to prison. so i don t want to be over there until i ride it out. i just came over here. when did you decide to plead guilty? more evidence was, at the last minute, was brought up against me. so i decided that to swallow my pride on some of the charges i didn t do for sure and take the plea, you know. pled no contest. what did you plead to exactly? i pled guilty to all charges except csc. i pled no contest to that, those
year ago, 26-plus years on the bench. this is one of the worst cases 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 abetters, there s no difference in the law. all four defendants were clearly involved. any one of you could have intervened and stopped 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 lenient. the first to be sentenced is rederick melton. first of all, on armed robbery, sentence of this court that you be committed to the
horrible series of crimes that occurred almost a year ago. 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 really a horrific criminal 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
the charges are home invasion, armed robbery and criminal sexual conduct. the victim of the latter crime as 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 wants to address the court all at once. i ll larry from the victim first, please. you do not need to state your name. go ahead, please. this whole crime has hon negligently been the worst struggle i vin 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 bad ways. i just want to do good. i want to make my mom proud. [ bleep ] 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. today i have new campbell s chunky spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i m very souperstitious. haha, that s a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] campbell s chunky soup. it fills you up right.