Batey, now 23, appeared in the monochrome blue denim uniform worn by Tennessee Department of Correction inmates. He's served about a year of his 15-year-prison term and is housed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
While they have appeals pending, the other three men in the case, Brandon Banks, 24, Cory Batey, 24, and Brandon Vandenburg, 24, are serving prison terms of 15 years for the first two and 17 years for Vandenburg.
15 yearsCory Batey and Brandon Banks were both sentenced to serve 15 years. Brandon Vandenburg, who was called the instigator of the attack, was sentenced to 17 years in prison. McKenzie, 23, had been charged with five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery.
Vandenburg, now 26, was one of four former Vanderbilt football players charged in the rape case that rocked the city. He faced trial on the charges twice after the judge ordered a retrial because of issues with a juror. Vandenburg; Cory Batey, 25; and Brandon Banks, 25 were ultimately convicted of aggravated rape.
Vandenburg was eventually sentenced to 17 years in prison. Batey and Banks were each sentenced to 15 years in prison, and McKenzie was sentenced to 10 years of probation as part of a plea deal, according to a 2018 New York Post article.
(WKRN) — Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught was sentenced to three years supervised probation in a Tennessee courtroom Friday after she was convicted of negligent homicide in the 2017 death of 75-year-old Charlene Murphey.
In November 2016, after being convicted Vandenburg was sentenced to 17 years in prison; after he gets out he will be required to be listed on the sex-offender registry for the rest of his life. He is serving his time in Morgan County Correctional Complex.
23Vandenburg, 23, had previously been found guilty in a joint trial alongside Batey, but those verdicts were thrown out due to juror misconduct, leading to separate retrials.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A former Vanderbilt University football player received the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison on Friday for the dorm room rape of an unconscious female student.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A former Vanderbilt University football player received the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison on Friday for the dorm room rape of an unconscious female student.
Former Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) nurse RaDonda Vaught was found guilty on March 25 of criminally negligent homicide and gross neglect of an impaired adult in the 2017 death of 75-year-old Gallatin resident Charlene Murphey. The jury found Vaught not guilty of reckless homicide.