you know? perjury. lying under oath. but all of melton s co-defendants are on record saying melton played a key role, that he not only participated in the crimes but was actually a guest at the party. part of a plan in which melton would case the location for the others. if he gets found guilty, he d rather go down saying he fought going down instead of, oh, i didn t take no plea like the rest of them. but when you fight, you ain t doing nothing but pissing them off. you making the judge and victims go through this night again, all this distraught, emotional. so if you do lose, you going to get hit with the max. melton says his co-defendants lack credibility. four against one. that is pretty bad odds, but four criminals. you know? even though hodges, jones and townes have all pled guilty to sexual criminal misconduct, they deny having committed the acts. the victim stated she could not identify their faces because
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 more than 40 years. your guidelines are higher, mr. townes, based on your prior record which includes criminal
that he not only participated in the crimes but was actually a guest at the party. part of a plan in which melton would case the location for the others. if he gets found guilty, he d rather go down saying he fought going down instead of, oh, i didn t take no plea like the rest of them. but when you fight, you ain t doing nothing but pissing them off. you making the judge and victims go through this night again, all this distraught, emotional. so if you do lose, you going to get hit with the max. melton says his co-defendants lack credibility. four against one. that is pretty bad odds, but four criminals. u know? even though hodges, jones and townes have all ed guilty to sexual criminal misconduct, they deny having committed the acts. the victim stated she could not identify their faces because they were masked. but according to hodges, some of the victims were still able to
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. he practices his shot in a maximum security general population unit.
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? i pled guilty to all charges except csc. i pled no contest to that, those three charges. are you saying that you were