6/28/14 - For the third time, the Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear a Fowlerville manâs appeal in a 2010 criminal sexual conduct case. 40-year-old Troy Roland Hamilton entered pleas to multiple counts of 2nd, 3rd and 4th degree criminal sexual conduct in November of 2010. The victims were under 13 years old. Hamilton was subsequently sentenced by Livingston County Circuit Court Judge David Reader to serve 10 to 15 years in prison. He appealed and sought to withdraw his plea in 2011, which was later denied by the Michigan Court of Appeals for lack of merit in the grounds presented. Hamilton then appealed to the Michigan Supreme Court, which denied his application the first time in November of 2012, saying it wasnât persuaded the questions presented should be reviewed. A motion for reconsideration of that order was then denied in January of 2013. Hamiltonâs third rejection came this week when the stateâs highest court again declined to take up his case because he had failed to establish a legal rationale as to why he is entitled to make an appeal of his conviction or sentence. Hamilton is currently incarcerated at a prison facility in Ionia. His earliest possible date for release is June of 2020. (JK)
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