you know, so i don t move. besides working on his case, melton has one other way to pass time. usually, like growing up, i was always at the park playing basketball. so i just feel, god made me a rim so that i can always play basketball. using my strength and power. slap the wall, that s when i score a shot. one point. when you put your mind to it, you got to keep slapping the wall. you re not thinking about nothing. except slapping that wall. you know? so i m using my strength to slap the wall. over and over and over again. boom! i m going show you how to do that [ bleep ]. one of melton s co-defendants dorian jones has pled guilty to all of his charges but must wait for melton s trial to end before he can be sentenced.
somebody dipping into my case? i think we 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. yeah. 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. several weeks earlier, melton was placed in disciplinary segregation for fighting in his maximum security general population unit. he s now eligible to return to general population but has requested to remain in segregation. classification comes in 30 days. they ask you if you want to move. i say no because i m going to trial. i d rather have the concentration down here.
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 seven, no more than 20 years. and then finally consecutive to home invasion first degree, criminal sexual conduct first degree, serve on the second home invasion not less than 18, no more than 40 years with the michigan department of corrections. the judge has sentenced melton to a total of 43 to 100 years in state prison. then it s on to the others. three counts of criminal sexual conduct first degree, a term of not less than 18, no more than 40 years. a term of not less than 20, no
they were masked. but according to hodges, some of the victims were still able to identify melton. they had a party that night. so he went to the party. so they can all identify him being there. and then when she seen his body build, she oh, yeah, he was tall, skinny, this and this and that. what does the victim say about you? what was your role? the victim didn t say anything about me. what did the victim say? the victim said she was raped, but she didn t say i raped her. she didn t it s like this. the victims say they didn t see anybody. what was her description? because she gave a description of the person who raped her. correct? somebody dipping in my case? i think we re done here. put me in my room. somebody dipping in my case. i m done. come get this mike off. i m done with this [ bleep ].
college student was raped. they could not be sentenced until the case of the fourth co-defendant was resolved. rederick melton proclaimed his innocence. he has voluntarily 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 ride 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?