Bradley appealed his conviction for Attempted Deviate Conduct as a Class B felony. He questioned whether the evidence was sufficient to sustain his conviction and whether his sentence was inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and its character.
Samuel Bradley received his sentence in the Starke Circuit Court earlier this month on a charge of Attempted Criminal Deviate Conduct as a Class B felony.
Bradley was charged with Attempted Criminal Deviate Conduct after he blocked a cell to prevent the victim, Todd Dalton, from leaving the cell while Adam Makowski and Buddy Blankenship assaulted him. According to the Starke County Sheriff’s Department’s case report, video tapes revealed that Makowski, Blankenship, and Bradley were involved in an assault against Dalton. The tapes showed that the trio had forced Dalton into the F-Block, where they tried to pull down his pants and assaulted him. Dalton said the three were trying to rape him because he refused to fight back during a prior altercation.
Bradley was found guilty in September, and was sentenced this month to 14 years in the Department of Corrections with none of that sentence suspended. Bradley may petition the court to allow him to serve the last two years of the sentence on home detention if he is accepted, but the state can object to that request.
The state called three witnesses to the stand throughout the course of the trial, including the victim in the case, along with the dispatcher and the detective. The defendant called only himself as a witness.
Two pre-trial motions and instructions hearings were heard in the Starke Circuit Court yesterday.
Robert Singleton faces charges that include Manufacturing Methamphetamine, Illegal Drug Lab, and other possession charges. He was arrested on Feb. 17 when police traveled to a home on State Road 23 in Knox to serve an arrest warrant on Singleton and Matthew Baker, where police found an active methamphetamine lab and a slew of drugs in the presence of two young children. Singleton’s trial was re-set for Nov. 28 at 9 a.m. in the Starke Circuit Court.
Samuel Bradley will go to trial today at 9 a.m. for charges of Attempted Criminal Deviate Conduct and Criminal Confinement. He appeared for his pre-trial motions and instructions hearing yesterday, where the court determined everything is in place for the trial to proceed.
