COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A Coldwater man was sent to the Michigan Department of Corrections on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court after he recently entered a no contest plea to third degree criminal sexual conduct.
44-year-old Matthew Paul Hicks was ordered to serve between 13 1/2 and 22 1/2 years in prison. The sentence was handed down after Hicks entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors on August 22.
He was sent to prison since this was his second offense. Hicks was convicted in 2005 of the same charge and was a registered sex offender.
Hicks was given credit for 242 days already served.
Four other criminal sexual conduct charges involving a child under the age of 13 were dismissed in exchange for the plea.
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