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i was diagnosed with this thing called o.d.d. oppositional defy see disorder, >> he has a gambling problem, but we're trying to work on that. >> and. >> 26 plus years, this is one of the worst cases that i've seen. >> for other inmates in jail for a shocking home invasion robbery and rape. >> i lost countless hours of
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sleep trying to avoid the nightmares of that night replaying in my head. >> one defendant will stand apart from eithers. >> you put your mind to it, you got to keep slapping the wall. >> though, nothing will prepare him for what is to come. >> i'm done with this [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] mic off me. by most accounts, grand rapids 20 miles east of michigan is an ideal place to live but like all cities, it has an under side. when crime occurs here, the arrest r pay it is are likely to spend time to the kent county jail. >> spread your legs as far apart as you can.
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>> most of the inmates females, and males are awaiting crimes. jail officials take strides to house inmates in a manner that will minimize any problems. >> how are you doing? good. >> we evaluate everyone that comes in, their risk, their need, the housing inmates of the same type of risk, the same type of needs and that's how you keep your jail as safe as possible. >> some cases, however, require the jail to take extra precautions. >> d-1 can you open 42, please? >> we now have a case in the jail that involves four suspects that were involved in a very serious criminal sexual assault and home invasion and the importance to keeping them separate is a full-time responsibility because you can have violent situations where if one of those suspects wants to get to the other one before he talks about the case, his life is in danger while he's here.
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>> the four suspects were booked into the jail one year earlier on charges on first-degree home invasion, armed robbery and first degree sexual misconduct or rape, a fifth suspect is a 14-year-old boy housed in the jail's juvenile wing. three of the four suspects, dorian joan s, plead guilty to all charges and are awaiting sentencing. >> it was supposed to be in and outbreaking and entering. once we get in there and people was there, things just went like -- people was getting beat up, tied up, and it was basically like everything happened like that. >> town says he and his co-defendants entered a home during the predawn hours following a party held there the night before.
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they wore masks to conceal their identities. the home belonged to students at a local college. >> we picked the house because we knew there was a bunch of people having a party, and they said they were going to be really drunk, so why not go back later? >> according to prosecutors, three male victims in the house were robbed and pistol-whipped. the one female victim reported being tied up, blind folded, beaten and raped by the suspects. the three who plead guilty said they did so in hopes of receiving shorter prison sentences than they would have if they were found guilty in trial, but they could receive maximum consecutive sentences on all their charges. >> i could get 15, maybe 20 years. i'm hoping i just get ten years. >> i know i'm going to do at least ten years. >> if i want to trial and lost, it would be life so i'd rather take something than to go and give my life away and never be able to see my son or nobody. >> one year later, the three men are still in jail awaiting sentencing. they are required to wait because the fourth adult suspect
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has pled not guilty and is taking his case to trial. >> none of the victims were able to id me at the scene or the party. there is no dna evidence against me. there are in fingerprints against me. there is no actual physical evidence against me. on a scale from one to ten, i'm at a nine about being found innocent. i know, the lord know i ain't do this. he'll judge me. i know justice will be served. >> when you say justice will be served, tell me what that means to you. >> me going home, you know. the truth coming out, showing that people are lying, 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 criming but actually a guest
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at the party, part of a plan he would case the location for the others. >> if he gets found guilty he would rather go down saying he fought going down or instead of 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 victims go through this again distraught and emotional. if you do lose, you 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 towns have all plead guilty to criminal sexual 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 identify melton. >> they had a party that night,
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so he went to the party, so they can all identify him being there, and then when she seen his body built, she -- oh, yeah, he was tall, skinny, this and this and that. >> what does the victim say about you? 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 victim said 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'm done, put me in my room. somebody dipping in my case. come get this mic off. i'm done with this [ bleep ]. get this mother [ bleep ] mic off me. >> people, man.
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>> coming up -- >> i'm strong. >> show your muscles. >> brandon towns gets a visit and a deputy goes on a pursuit. >> he's calling this hot line. >> you see where they are at, stay away from those areas because that's where too many people are. you want to go where the people are not.
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day to day operations at the kent county jail in grand rapids are managed by sheriff deputies. john hess used to be one of them. now he's the county administrator who oversees the jail and its staff. >> we have some mean, nasty ugly people in jail. some real hard core criminals, but the majority of the people are people from our community. they are people going back there.
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so i think we try really, really hard here to have our staff understand that these are just people. >> deputy justin flynn worked at the jail for seven years and says he's bought into that philosophy. >> nobody wants to be in jail. i'm ready to go home after eight hours so i'm trying to make their day better. these guys know that i'll talk to them all. we'll joke around, but if they cross the line, they will get timed in. >> deputy flynn says breaking up the monotony of jail life isn't simple. >> the game is bean bag toss. so more you can occupy them, the more they are distracted from getting into trouble. now the one thing we can't let these guys do is gamble because this is more or less what they do up here. this one right here, that one
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over there. >> like horseshoes like this, like horseshoes. >> a little farther. >> yeah. >> andre? >> i've been working on it for months. >> i saw that. >> yeah, that's why my head is so big. it's a success. i think it will be good as long as these guys don't abuse it. >> but not everyone shares flynn's enthusiasm. >> he came up with the bean bag idea. i didn't think he was serious about it. well then they bought it. so now he's like well, they think it's a good idea so i guess i got to run with it. >> justin's brother john is also a deputy at the jail. >> other than having bald heads, they are complete opposites. night and day. >> corey, i tried rogaine, they
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lie to you. >> corey hamilton. >> i don't think i look anything like that guy and they think i'm sometimes him and they come up to me and ask me about these crazy stories and i say, i'm sorry, i don't know what you're talking about. they think i'm completely lying because they think i'm him. >> i'm heading out. >> as co-workers, the brothers spend a lot of time together but soon, justin will go away for awhile in order to pursue a dream. >> i'm off the whole month of june and we're going to be out in washington and oregon, the olympic peninsula, and we're going to be out there big foot hunting. >> are you really going to look for big foot? >> yes. >> i don't believe you. >> we're going to washington state to squauch and he's taking it to another level. >> too many people are going to the big sasquatch. >> you got to worry about the mom and the dad. >> i walked into his house the other day and he bought a 3.5 foot cardboard cutout standing in his living room. i said, come on, what is this?
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i said aren't big foots bigger, like seven, eight foot supposedly? he said no, no, no, that's not what i'm looking for. that's the baby. >> three weeks of nothing but looking. >> just in the woods squauching. >> he's calling this big foot hot line to find out where the most recent activity is. >> you get on the internet, find out where he's out and stay out of those areas. there is too many people. you got to play the wind, i got my detroy and we'll get him in. yes, you go woop. woop. >> what an idiot. you don't really believe this, do you? >> yes, 100%. >> you got a cage? >> no, i got two guns right there.
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>> god good he's lost his mind. >> two guns. >> while his brother inmate is skeptical, justin made true believers in several inmates like scott. >> i'm going to research where the most squatch sightings are and i'll go where they are not. i learned this from my buddy flynn. >> because you don't want to go where they are over called, that's like turkey hunting. >> no, because they will run away, you got to go where they are not. now what if i put on a squatch suit and befriend to be a juvenile squatch. >> that's risky. >> someone might shoot me? >> yeah. >> my best advice is don't listen to what he says. >> i'm a believer. this man is probably an idle of mine. i idolize him. he's my mentor. >> i mentor people. >> you just come to work and get your paycheck. i mentor people. >> but charged with breaking and entering into a vehicle, to
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which he pled not guilty, said he always had a problem with authority. >> i was dig nosed with odd, oppositional defy yen see disorder which is basically like [ bleep ] the man. i didn't get tested an awful lot because i am small, but i'm no [ bleep ] you know. i'm not a punk. if people want to go there with me, [ bleep ] it, whatever, it is what it is. i'll bite your ear off, i'll grab ahold of your [ bleep ] and twist them. >> 21-year-old dipiazza has many run ins with the law. he blames his most recent with a combination of drugs and alcohol. >> i went over to a buddies of mine and i said give me some pills because he has tourette's and i was snorting them and eating them and next thing i know, i just -- the next morning
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everybody is like hey, you broke into all these cars and we told you not to and you brought back all this stuff. here it is. and i'm like, oh, [ bleep ], you know. >> through dipiazza pleaded not guilty in hopes of reaching a deal, he hasn't denied committing the crime. >> kicking my stuff in the butt because that's stuff i did when i was a kid. kids break into cars. not adults. >> while dipiazza wants to abide by the law, his life revolves around another banned activity. gambling. >> they break the doors for day room and i sit right there at that poker table all day. >> all in? call. that's my whole daily routine, play poker for lunch, eat lunch, lockdown for an hour, play poker until dinner. >> dipazza, has a gambling problem.
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i try to pull him from the table. no gambling. >> no gambling? >> he'll keep an eye on the bean bag toss. >> you guys like to gamble too much. scott said thanks for getting this up. i said no gambling. this pod likes to gamble but we try to cut it down. >> what's the point system? >> the lowest three. >> scott is not a very good gambling. in life he needs to stop and do something else. >> where scotty at? >> since inmates don't have access to cash, they typically gamble snacks purchased from the come scary. dipazza gets his mother to purchase them. >> she says focus into good ways, not bad ways. i want to do good.
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i want to make my mom proud. [ bleep ] it. i'm all in. >> coming up. >> you owe me one more. >> scott dipazza's losses mount. >> last time we talked to you, you got angry. >> and melton explains his anger. d you think of the house? did you see the school ratings? oh, you're right. hey babe, i got to go. bye daddy! have a good day at school, ok? ...but what about when my parents visit? ok. i just love this one... and it's next to a park. i love it. i love it too. here's our new house... daddy! you're not just looking for a house. you're looking for a place for your life to happen.
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the crimes grabbed headlines and shocked residents of grand rapids. the victims were local college students living in a house together. three victims were beaten and robbed and a young woman was raped by the masked intruders. four men were arrested and are now in the kent county jail. three pled guilty, but melton pleaded not guilty. when we asked him about the female's description of one of her attackers, he shut down. >> somebody dipping in high case, i think we done here. put me in my room. somebody dipping in my case.
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i'm done. >> two weeks later, melton agreed to talk to us again. >> last time we talked to you, you got angry, what was that about. >> it was about i felt 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. he's now eligible to return to general population, but has requested to remain in segregation. >> classification comes, you do 30 days and they ask you if you want to move. i say no because i'm going to
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trial. i'd rather have the concentration down here, 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 ksh that's why i made me a rim, so i can always play basketball. it's my strength and power, slap a wall. that's when i score a shot, a point. when you put your mind to it, you got to keep slapping the wall. you're not thinking about nothing but 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 to show you how to do this [ bleep ]. >> one of melton's co-defendants jones pled guilty to all his charges but must wait for melton's trial to end before he can be sentenced. he practices his shut in a maximum security population unit. >> shut your -- up.
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>> inside his cell, a third co-defendant hodges also waiting on sentencing works on other skills. >> what are you doing now? >> creasing my shirt. the paper keeps the wrinkles out. got to look it good. crease my shirts, my pants. it sticks out. everybody else got greens, they don't have creases but mine's do. >> how long does it stay for? >> i do it at least two or three days, just so i know it's really in there. >> brandon towns has a prior criminal sexual misconduct conviction which could result in a longer sentence than any of his co-defendants. >> at first i was like i'll never be able to start life over again. what's the use of trying to live now? >> wait for me. >> i have a son out there.
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i have people that care for me, so i wouldn't want to do something to myself to hurt them. >> today, townson's 3-year-old son and his wife come to visit. >> brandon and i were together for three years and we split up. my son wants to see his dad. >> you have to wait until daddy comes on the screen. >> it's hard hearing my son say i want my dad. i want to go to my dad's house. and he can't go to his dad's house. >> hi, baby, how are you doing? i miss you. >> no. >> you don't miss me? >> uh-uh. >> you want to fight? >> tell him. >> i strong. >> you strong? >> yeah. >> show him your muscles. you got to come right here so he can see you. show him your muscles. >> dada. >> look, look at dada. >> say i got bigger muscles. >> i got bigger muscles. >> does little brandon
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understand where you're at? >> he knows enough i'm not at high house. he knows i'm somewhere else. >> all right. bye. >> big hugs. >> you gave me a big hug. >> blow him a kiss. blow him a kiss. >> yes. >> how are you going to explain it to him when he starts asking. >> i'm going to let him know daddy made a mistake and when people be bad this is where you go and you don't ever want to be bad. >> all right, bye. >> bye. >> brandon? brandon? lord. coming up. >> no one is going to hurt you, buddy. >> the flynn brothers respond to an emergency before one of them heads to the wild then. >> why didn't you put money in my account.
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>> do what you got to do, stretch it out. >> scott dipiazza gets motherly advice.
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the goal of most kent county jail deputies is to get through the day in an ordinarily and safe manner, but they know to always expect the unexpected. >> what's going on? >> we have problems in here. yes? >> deputy justin flynn just encounter add peculiar situation, an inmate is lying beneath his bunk and is unresponsive. >> let's go. >> for security reasons, flynn returns all other inmates to the cells before he investigates further. >> this guy was not acting right, that he was underneath his bunk and obviously when you go in there it looks like it's probably something mental. everything checks out otherwise. >> no one is going to hurt you. >> you get medical up here, mental health, get enough deputies in case he becomes combative. >> nobody is going to hurt you, buddy. >> we got him out there and medical checked him out and he's good to go now. got it under control justin?
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>> yeah. >> barns. >> everything is status quo. >> on that note, deputy flynn is off to pursue a dream. he's headed to the pacific northwest on a three-week quest to find big foot. >> how about your brother? i just talked to him two days ago. >> how is he doing? >> he just left washington, going to oregon. he was squatching. >> it's up to his older brother to keep updates on the journey. >> i don't know if he saw one. he hasn't quite one. i'm pretty sure he hasn't caught one. >> i check in with usa today every day. >> right? another sas squatch believer. >> what will your mom say when she sees your hair in corn rows? >> i don't know. she'll probably dig it. she supports everything i do, except for breaking the law. >> he's awaiting charges on
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breaking and entering into a vehicle. he had a long list of convictions but dipazza says he's gotten away with for more crimes than he's been caught for. >> i've done some pretty dirt ball, [ bleep ]. there is this mexican market i used to go for on the west side. i feel like a real dirt ball for this. there was a shoe box and a picture of a guy in a hospital bed with hispanic writing, spanish writing, in american i'm sure it said something like i'm real messed up, help me, charity box. me being an [ bleep ], i take off the backpack and put it in my backpack and left and there was 150 bucks in it and i justified it by saying those mexicans were probably ripping us off anyway.
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that guy was probably dead or something and they kept that there as a tip jar. >> i'm not doing this. uh-uh. i tried but when i start doing the next braid, this braid start coming down even more. look at this. it won't stay. >> lately, dipiazza hasn't had much luck at the poker table. he gambles for snacks. >> all right. here is four now. he will get the honey bun. the black eye with the lotion will give me a honey bun and brown sleeve. >> you owe me one more. i get one more. >> i was up and went down and so i was just basically giving him the -- what i lost. >> though dipiazza has once again taken a loss, he now has a visit from his primary source of income, his mother, lisa. she's scheduled an appointment at the jail's visitor center for
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a visit with her son. one minute past. mom, can you answer the phone if you're not coming? i'm nervous and people are waiting on me. i'm like real pissed now. i feel like a total [ bleep ] idiot. >> after half an hour, the video monitor finally clicks on signaling lisa's arrival. >> hi, sweetie. i had an appointment. >> hold on, just let me wait half an hour real quick. >> okay. why don't you do that? did you do to your hair? >> i had an appointment. i had to do what i had to do. >> if you had an appointment. >> she had a flower sale at the church. >> and i sat here for a half hour starring at a blue screen, people are laughing at me, i'm mad at you and don't want to be mad at you because i haven't seen you. >> i have a good reason. >> i don't buy the ex excuses
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but whatever. >> look at your hair. really sweetie? i got to take a picture of this crappy hair you got. amanda will crap herself. your hair is hideous. >> i had a real bad day, mom. >> do you have a fever? >> no, i lost some money. >> how? >> playing cards. >> i have to win to eat and i lose and it frus mates me. it hurts me right here when i lose. >> really? >> yeah, it's like -- it builds up anger and makes me anxious. why didn't you put money in my account? >> because i'm going to put $10 in your account today and they will suck $3 out. do what you got to do on 7 bucks. >> how much? >> seven because they take out three. >> seven? >> you know what, don't go to jail if you don't want to live on $7 a week. >> buy some crackers. >> i'm going to gamble that away.
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i'm going to try to turn that seven into 14 and that 14 to 30. >> do you have shoes like those? >> because it was like -- yeah. i had to sell my crocks. >> what? >> i sold my crocks. >> why? >> because i needed to eat. >> are you kidding me? >> it's cool. is there any way that you can ask grandma for three more dollars so you can put 13 and get 10? >> no grandma -- >> $7 is like -- >> you know what? you know what? do what you got to do, stretch it out. if you need to buy crackers, that's a lesson learned. >> i appreciate everything you give me. >> he is my son. he's my sweet boy. it's just he ended up with the wrong people at the wrong time, so because he made foolish mistakes, he has to pay for those. you don't shut off your kids
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because they make mistakes. >> i love you, mom, thank you for coming. >> i love you, too, sweet. >> sorry you didn't have more time to visit. >> i know. >> but thank you for the $7. >> i do what i can for you, sweet. can you please take a bath? >> no, i love you, mom, bye. >> i love you, too, sweet, bye, honey. >> bye. >> he's just done some really foolish things, but i know that as he grows, when he gets married, when he has kids, his greatness is yet to come. i've always told him he's destined for greatness, and he is. he'll show everybody. he'll be fine. coming up. >> that's my squash footprint. >> deputy flynn returns. scott dipiazza hears from the judge and a major development for the four men accused of home invasion and rape.
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deputy justin flynn is back on the job at the jail and he's returned with what he says is. irrefutable. squatch print. you like that? irrefutable, bro, irrefutable proof. >> see the footprint? see the toes? squatch. irrefutable proof. >> to me, it looks like there's a lot of justin in it. >> no, no, there's not. >> there's a lot of you in this. >> that's his sanity.
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>> native american will tell you that this is what it is. come here j.j., look at this. what do you think that is? >> looks like a crack pipe to me. no, it's a pencil. >> no, what's this? >> oh, i don't know, man. >> it's a squatch footprint. >> oh, squatch footprint. >> what do you think? >> perhaps. >> if you look -- >> this guy -- >> insanity -- >> so you're telling native americans they are wrong to believe in squatch. >> you can believe what you want. >> i don't believe in squatch. >> what about you? >> i'm the only squatch on the west side. >> i'm a squatch believer. matter of fact, i get out of here on april 14th. i'm headed out west and on my way, i'm going to look for squatches. >> scott dipiazza knows his release date because his case is resolved.
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he pled guilty to breaking and entering into a vehicle. he was sentenced to one year in the kent county jail in audition to the eight months he's already served. >> i knew i was going to get about a year in county jail, but i thought he was going to take into account my eight months. so i thought he was going to say, okay, you've sat eight months, i'm going to sentence you to four more months in kent county jail, but it didn't happen that way. that's a long sentence, you know. >> sentencing is also finally in sight for four other inmates. nearly a year earlier, towns, hodges, and jones pled guilty to charges relating 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. melton proclaimed his innocence.
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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 fixing to go to prison, so i don't want to be over there until i ride 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
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actually there. i'm just not accountable for everything that happened. the worst of the worst i would get like 38 years. best case 11 years. 11 years, that would be great, great. you know, that's why i plead no contest because that's not saying you're guilty, that's just saying i would rather not fight it. >> 12 days later, the four men are in the eve of their sentencing. are you nervous? why not? >> i mean, pretty much, you know, i know around what i'm fixing to get? >> what are you looking at? >> 14 to 23. >> how are you feeling? >> nervous. >> tell me what your guidelines are right now. >> from what i hear 13 to 25 years. >> people think about the best going into the courtroom and faint when they get the worst, you know what i'm saying? you have to think about the worst. i'm been thinking about coming
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home 40, 50. >> it's been something you've been waiting for to happen and now it's finally here and it's like you got a gut feeling, you're scared about it, nervous. the first day of going to school, something like that. you don't know what to expect. coming up. >> any one of you could have intervened and stopped it short of a really horrific criminal sexual assault. >> four co-defendants learn their fate and hear from their victim. >> i dreaded it for the fact i have to look in your faces.
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mr. melton, man, how are you doing man? come on out. joe, got one for you. right over the door.
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>> life like a box of chocolate, you never know what you going to get. you got a porn star mustache. [ laughter ] >> you look like somebody -- >> walk out this way. >> it's a lot of mother [ bleep ] getting sentenced today. >> ready to get it over with. >> it's been nearly a year since they have seen each other, and now it's time for the four men convicted of several heinous crimes that shocked the city of grand rapids to receive their sentences.
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the charges are home invasion, armed robbery, and criminal sexual conduct. the victim of the ladder crime was a female college student. >> the record we have, all four defendants with the respective counsel. mr. becker? >> your honor, these cases are ready for sentencing at this point in time. i know we have a victim ready 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. >> okay. this whole crime has honestly been the hardest struggle i've ever been through. i've dreaded this process, dreaded the fact i've had to look in your faces. i've lost count lsz hours of sleep to avoid the nightmares of that night replaying in my head over and over again. i dread it so much i thought i
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couldn't do anymore, that i couldn't bare to get up out of bed in the morning, but i did and i'll keep doing it. i hope during your sentence you will reflect on your terrible decisions and actions of wrongdoing and in your punishment you can become a better person. >> thank you very much. >> one by one, they stand before the judge. >> i would like to apologize to the victims for my involvement in this event. >> i just want to take responsibility for my actions. >> robbing hers never supposed to happen. >> i would just like to apologize to the victims and all their families and the community and the court systems and my family, as well and i take full responsibility for what i did. >> i hope my sentence does make me a better person. pretty much all i have to say. >> do you know this is horrible series of crimes that occurred almost a year ago, 26 plus years
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on the bench, this is one of the worst cases that i've seen. each one of the four defendants here pled guilty to criminal sexual misconduct first-degree and whether they participated directly or were aiders and abedders, there is in difference in the law. all four of these defendants were clearly involved. any one of you could have intervened and stopped it short of a really horrific criminal sexual assault. >> though each of the four men begged on the judge being lean jenlt. the first to be sentenced is towns. >> the robbery of the sentence support that you become mitted to michigan department of corrections for a term not less than 18 or more than 40 years.
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consecutive to that, you are to serve on home invasion first-degree a sentence of not less than seven, not more than 20 years and finally consecutive to home invasion, first-degree, criminal sexual conduct first-degree, not less than 18, no more than 40 years on those convictions. >> the judge sentenced melton to a total of 43 to 100 years in state prison. then, it's onto the others. >> three counts of criminal sexual 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. towns, based upon your prior record, which includes the criminal sexual misconduct
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offense, a sentence of not less than 25, not more than 40 years and consecutive to that for home invasion, a sentence of not less than 12 years, no more than 20 years a sentence of not less than 25, not more than 40 years. row are inviteed to file an application for appeal. >> thank you, your honor. >> thank you, your honor. >> got screwed. i'm going to die in prison, basically. 20 years, 25 years, that's reasonable, you know, 50 is just
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make an example out of me or something. i didn't expect 43. >> the worst was supposed to be like 28, . >> is that what you're thinking about doing right now? >> yeah, i can do it with you. i could grab you up. you better watch out.
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on the ground! >> no way to handle the situation in here. you've got to fight. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in the infirmary for eight days. >> love that. >> i chased after a court officer. they said i hit one and kicked one and spit on him. >> for those inmates all too willing to throw a punch -- the jail has a special place. >> the box. >> sepat

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