Dexter man gets 120 days in jail for fight
By Judy Harrison
BDN Staff
DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Dexter man who was shot and beaten last year in a fight with two men related to each other was sentenced in Piscataquis County Superior Court last week to 120 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.
Reginald “Reggie” Melvin, 49, was the last of the three to be sentenced, according to the Piscataquis County district attorney’s office.
In addition to jail time, Melvin was ordered to pay a $300 fine. He pleaded guilty to assault and criminal mischief, both Class D crimes, and violation of a condition of release, a Class E crime, just before sentencing.
Melvin began serving his sentence immediately.
He originally was charged with the more serious crime of aggravated assault, a Class B charge, according to the district attorney’s office. That was dropped in exchange for his guilty pleas.
Melvin was shot on Lancaster Avenue in Dover-Foxcroft on April 22, 2014, during an altercation with a group of young men, according to a previously published report. He was brought by LifeFlight helicopter to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, and he left the hospital three days later.
Wilbur Joe Corson Jr., 23, of Dover-Foxcroft in March pleaded no contest in Piscataquis County Superior Court to one count of aggravated assault in connection with the fight. No contest pleas result in convictions. He was sentenced to six years in prison with all but nine months suspended followed by three years of probation.
Conditions of Corson’s probation include no contact with the victim and some witnesses, abiding by a curfew, not using alcohol or drugs, undergoing counseling and paying $35,000 in restitution, District Attorney R. Christopher Almy said in March.
Corson also pleaded no contest to one count each of terrorizing, assault and violation of a condition of release in connection with an assault on Melvin last month. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail on each of those charges to be served concurrently to the more serious felony charge.
That incident took place during jury selection for the trial of Corson and his cousin Kyle Corson, 22, of Dover-Foxcroft on charges related to the 2014 attack on Melvin, according to a previously published report.
Kyle Corson’s case was moved to Bangor after a jury could not be selected in Dover-Foxcroft because too many potential jurors were familiar with the case, Almy said previously.
On May 11 at the Penobscot Judicial Center, Kyle Corson pleaded guilty to one count of assault, Class D, according to the Piscataquis County district attorney’s office. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
In exchange for their pleas, more serious charges were dropped.
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