Teen’s Mom Calls Him Altar Boy—No Remorse in Court—PRISON

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]He made a mistake and is very sorry. He attends church service.

[00:00:06]Like I did not violate at all. Like >> do you have more you want to say, Mr. Stanford?

[00:00:10]>> No.

[00:00:11]>> In terms of the state's recommendation for the case, this is a secondderee felony uh violent offense. Carries with it a presumption for a prison sentence.

[00:00:19]And I think in these circumstances that uh the defense would defendant is unable to overcome that presumption. you know, looking at the seriousness of the offense itself, the fact there was a firearm involved in it. Additionally, the defendant has failed to be able to comply with the pre-trial services in the case. I think that demonstrates that he is not a good candidate for community control. I know the court is considering him for perhaps release sometime in the future to address some of his other behavioral issues, but I think uh we should given the seriousness of the offense, anything other than a present sentence would demean the seriousness of this offense. I uh state's recommendation is a minimum determinant sentence of four years to a maximum indeterminate sentence of six years.

[00:01:04]>> Officer Wilifford, anything from probation?

[00:01:06]>> Nothing further, honor.

[00:01:07]>> All right, Mr. Aldridge, a couple of housekeeping notes before we get started. We have the issue of the Reagan Tes uh sentence. Uh Mr. Stanford, you're going to be receiving both a definite and an indefinite sentence. This is known as a Reagan Tes sentence. It's presumed that you're released at the minimum term, but you may under certain circumstances be kept by the adult parole authority up to the maximum penalty in the case. You have uh there at uh council table something called notification indefinite term Reagan toes, right?

[00:01:40]>> Yes, we have gone over that, your honor.

[00:01:42]>> All right. And uh Mr. Uh, Stanford, are you satisfied that you have been notified about the Reagan toes uh, sentence or do you want me to read this to you?

[00:01:54]>> All right. Anything else, Sage?

[00:01:56]>> Anything else you want to add to that?

[00:01:58]>> Ma'am, who who are you?

[00:01:59]>> I'm his mother.

[00:02:00]>> Okay.

[00:02:01]>> I have a letter as well.

[00:02:03]>> Okay.

[00:02:03]>> Can I present it?

[00:02:04]>> Okay. Do you want to read it to me or do you want me to read it?

[00:02:07]>> I can Well, I can read it.

[00:02:10]>> Okay. Step up to the podium here. Tell me your name and how you spell your first and your last name.

[00:02:28]Um, my name is Loretta Allen. I'm Jaylen Stanford's mother.

[00:02:33]And the letter states, I am writing this letter regarding my son, Jaylen Stanford. Jaylen is a bright and intelligent young man and is very remorseful for the decision he has made regarding the situation he's in. Jaylen was a straight A and B student in high school. After graduation, he attended college at Central State University. He graduated high school with honors and received numerous scholarships in football, baseball, and his academic achievement. Prior to this, he never had got in any trouble. He made a mistake and is very sorry. He attends church service on the usher. He attend church, serves on the usher board, and helped to assist the nursing board. He has played sports all the way up until high school.

[00:03:30]He went to college for sports medicine.

[00:03:33]He has been employed since high school working various job until recently he had got laid off from his job and he was trying to find another job. He had got a job interview and he was about to begin his orientation right before he got came got arrested this out here for a new job. Jaylen has learned a valuable lesson from all of this and he is very sorry and it just had my name on it.

[00:04:06]>> All right. Thank you, >> Mr. Stanford. You get the last word in this. Anything you want to tell me other than what's in your letter?

[00:04:12]>> Um, yes. It's like when they say I violated probation. Like I did not violate at all. Like it was 2 days before my court date. Then they just said I complied with everything they told me to do. Then two days they told me to come in. They was going to check it. And then they drug tested me pass.

[00:04:32]Then they locked me up like I didn't violate nothing. They told me to go on no walks cuz they said they couldn't find my location.

[00:04:39]I did it every single time. I don't know what I didn't come fly to do.

[00:04:46]Like, they didn't tell me I was going to come in, go to jail. They told me they was going to come in and look at it. I was going to come in and look at it.

[00:04:53]They was going to look at me.

[00:04:58]>> So, here's my understanding of what happened. Uh, with regard, you said probation, but we're talking about pre-trial supervision.

[00:05:04]>> What's that? Uh, I got a email from Officer Conroy on Sunday, April the 19th where we had issues said started Thursday when uh, Mr. Stanford went into tracker miss call back, whatever that means. But officer Balon called you, told you that you needed to charge his that you needed to charge your monitor and you told her that you were locked in your girlfriend's room and couldn't get out. There was a discussion about you not staying at your approved address.

[00:05:37]And then we had another issue that came up on Friday at 7:00. Mr. Officer Hoffman tried to call you three times to tell you to charge your monitor and to go on a walk so they could get a better signal. Issue finally did clear uh up.

[00:05:52]Then we had another issue Saturday morning at 2:30 in the morning uh where you were not at your approved residence.

[00:05:59]Officer Hoffman again tried to call you uh three times and on the fourth time uh he finally was able to get a hold of you. Then fast forward to Sunday uh at 4:40 in the morning. Uh again we had the same problem and Officer Hullman this time tried to call you I think 11 times.

[00:06:22]uh you didn't answer your phone and we tried to call you at 9:14 in the morning and that was problematic.

[00:06:31]Uh you reported that you were your girlfriend's residence and that we were still having issues. Part of this was a signal issue. Part of this is you not complying with the charging standards.

[00:06:42]Part of this is you not being where you're supposed to be. So, that's a sort of a summary of the pains uh that we had with you on supervision in addition to you not paying on the monitor fee.

[00:06:57]>> Can I talk?

[00:06:58]>> Sure.

[00:06:58]>> Um the times they called and I didn't answer it was like a late at night when I was sleep. That's why I didn't answer those ones. But when I did receive them, I called right back. And then the other two when you had said like it wasn't charging, I was charging it. And then when they said they come find my location, I think that was just a monitor glitching or something because I was charging it and any throughout the six months I was on it, I had no problems, but then it just start having problems. And then Mr. Smalls, my probation officer, he knew I wasn't home some nights when I had when I was at Xavier University. So it wasn't no problem there when I did it before and then when he went on when he went on vacation, it's just a problem. So at that point, how can that be my fault when I wasn't notified when Mr. Smalls allowed me to be somewhere else?

[00:07:51]So here's the bottom line in all of this, Mr. Stanford, that um it's kind of hard to uh for me to buy in to the you know, well, I didn't really know what was going on. and trouble just kind of follows me and there's always this misunderstanding when all of these things keep adding up. And so do you have more you want to say, Mr. Stanford?

[00:08:23]>> No, I'm just confused. Like everything I'm saying is valid. Like I never did nothing wrong in this this case right here. Like I complied with y'all this whole time.

[00:08:33]>> So on one hand, Mr. Stanford I have here that it says uh I realize how foolish I was being although only in driver at that night that are you are you taking responsibility for this or not? Because if you if you're not and you're saying you know look I didn't know anything was going on and I was not at fault in this.

[00:08:54]That's not a plea of guilty. That means that you should go to trial and I should hear evidence and determine what level of involvement that you had. And if you had no involvement, you just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, that's not a crime. But if you had uh involvement in this and the evidence comes out that you did, then this is even more maybe more serious than it's been represented to me throughout this process. So, I'm trying to figure out if you're taking responsibility for this and we want to go forward today or this is eh this is big misunderstanding, wrong place, wrong time, blah blah blah, all of this nonsense. In which case, we should have a trial on this and settle those points. But that means that the stipulation that the state has, which you were not uh the primary offender, all of those things go out the window, as well as taking responsibility, being sorry, those things don't mean anything to me. We'll try the case and we'll figure out whether or not you're at fault. Do you understand where I'm at with this, Mr. Stanford?

[00:09:57]>> Yes.

[00:09:57]>> You don't get to play both sides of this coin. You either take responsibility for what you did. This was a terrible situation. We have guns, drugs, and fake money. And the idea that people start pulling out their guns and start shooting at each other even though, again, you were not one of those people.

[00:10:16]Uh the fact that you're behind the wheel uh for all of this, this is a big problem. in for my community. And uh I got Mr. Hunter on one hand who was the victim in this case, but also terrible.

[00:10:30]Uh we have the juvenile who was dealt with in Butler County, also I understand your nephew, but probably the most at fault in this and not subject to my jurisdiction.

[00:10:41]Um I'm trying to figure out, Mr. Stanford, if you are a criminal, if uh it's already sort of been established that you don't always tell me the truth and you don't always tell the law enforcement people the truth because we've had different different versions of this that have come through. What I'm trying to figure out is do I give you the minimum sentence for this and try to get you out on supervision or do we just impose a sentence and be done with you? And you're not really helping me reach a conclusion as to that, Mr. Stanford, because my plan, as I told your attorney, is to give you a prison sentence and then release you in 6 months on probation because I think that serves everybody's interest. It protects the public. It punishes you and it allows me to get you out. Do we want to go forward today? Do you want to talk to Mr. Aldridge a little bit about this?

[00:11:34]What What are we doing here, Mr. Stanford? Go forward.

[00:11:39]All right. Court is going to sentence you to four to six years in prison. It is presumed that you are released at that four-year term. But again, under the Reagan toes, the Department of Rehabilitation Corrections may under certain circumstances keep you up to the six-year term. You are also subject to the mandatory period of postrelease control that I told you about a couple of minutes ago.