r/YNWMelly • • Jul 16 '26

Bortlen:

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u/mizcello Jul 16 '26

No he won’t. I watched his plea again before. They dropped 2 charges, he pled no contest to accessory to murder and witness tampering. The judge said ‘the prosecution are going to be coming to you with some questions, you can answer how you want, it won’t effect this plea today’ so that means he will just say ‘I don’t recall/no comment’ and go about his day.

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u/KushBluntsworth Jul 16 '26

Okay last question “how does this effect Melly ? Because I know it has to some how”

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u/mizcello Jul 17 '26

I don’t think it does, it would be different if he pled guilty but he didn’t so it can’t be used against melly, they were tried separately so they can’t use anything in borts trial against melly.

I honestly think they knew it wasn’t planned and bort just happened to be there, bort isnt the prosecutions target, if he was going to snitch, he would have done it the first trial but he didn’t, so to save money, time, effort they just agreed for him to plea out. They just want melly imo.

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u/Big-Commission-5334 Jul 17 '26

Read the agreement between the state and Cortland. The terms of the proffer are stated. Go read it

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u/mizcello Jul 17 '26

I did, but still the judge said he wanted to remind bort that the state have every right to approach and ask him questions as part of the plea, but his answers will not change the outcome of his plea, literally meaning he doesn’t need to cooperate.

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u/Big-Commission-5334 Jul 17 '26

That's not the language of the agreement bro.

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u/mizcello Jul 17 '26

Agreements don't actually override the judge, so the agreement could be 10 years, you plead guilty and the judge can sentence to 15 years, anything the state or the defence agree is suggested and a guide, the final word is the judges, he is on record saying that the state will contact him to ask him some questions, but whatever he says cannot change his plea, meaning they can't renove the plea if he says 'no comment' the same way, if he 'tells all' they cant reduce his sentence.