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. 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. so i don t move. besides working on his case,
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? i pled guilty to all charges except csc. i pled no contest to that, those three charges. are you saying that you were
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. he practices his shot in a maximum security general population unit.
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. 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. 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. he practices his shot in a maximum security general population unit.