A man who violently resisted arrest while serving on parole will spend the next year in jail.

Judge Mark Herman sentenced Branden Paul Bradley, 30, of Berrien Springs, to 365 days in Cass County jail during his hearing in county court Friday morning. Bradley was sentenced for a single count of resisting/assaulting a police officer, which he pleaded guilty to on Feb. 13.

According to the judge, deputies with the Cass County Sheriff’s Office apprehended Bradley on Nov. 1 after the officers were dispatched to the Peck Motel in Silver Creek Township, where the Berrien Springs man was staying at the time while on parole. Bradley had called his parole officer to let her know he had gotten intoxicated, promoting the officer to dispatch police to pick him up.

When police arrived, Bradley refused to let them into the room, which required officers to get a second set of keys from the motel staff to enter. Bradley refused to listen to the deputies when they tried to take him into custody.

Although the officers successfully placed him in handcuffs, Bradley kept kicking one of the squad cars the officers tried to place him in, which made police place leg restraints on him as well. The additional restraints proved futile, as, while en route to the jailhouse, Bradley managed to slip out of the leg restraints and got his cuffed hands in front of his body.

“You began banging your head on of the cage of vehicle and began kicking the door of the squad car,” Herman said to the defendant in court Friday. “You were restrained again. You continued to attempt to free yourself, at which point an officer had to ride in back with you to the jail.”

Bradley said he was drinking that day due to the recent death of his father.

“I called my [parole officer] and asked her for help,” Bradley said during Friday’s proceedings. “Instead of bringing help she brought the cops, who wouldn’t even let me get dressed. That’s all I asked for, was to get dressed before I left.”

Cass County Prosecutor Victor Fitz said Bradley’s attitude toward his parole officer and the police demonstrated his sense of entitlement, and said the defendant had “a chip on his shoulder [that] is a mile high.” Fitz also mentioned the defendant has a lengthy criminal past, which includes convictions for domestic violence, resisting/obstructing police and malicious destruction of police property.

“The thing he can do to respect his father’s past is to be a good man, to obey the law and set a good example for others,” Fitz said. “That is what will honor his father, not the path he has chosen to be on the past 10 years.”

Fitz asked the judge to impose a significant period of incarceration on Bradley.

Bradley’s attorney, Robert Drake, said that his client had made positive strides while on parole, including securing employment and residency. The fact the defendant called his parole officer himself that day appeared to be a call for help, the attorney added.

“What seems like a rash and immature decision to us is him trying to make decisions based on the hand he was dealt,” Drake said.

While Herman gave the defendant a jail sentence, the judge told Bradley he believed the man’s claims at wanting to improve his life were genuine, and that, at 30, he still had plenty of time left to change his ways.

“There are programs in jail that you will hopefully avail yourself to so you can get your life back on track,” Herman said.

Also sentenced Friday:

• Sue Ann Devos, 47, of Niles, to two years of probation for methamphetamine-related charges.

• Anthony Michael Dempsey, of Cassopolis, to one year of probation for attempted possession of a dangerous weapon.

• Parnell Alexander Jenkins, 28, of Dowagiac, to a minimum of one year and five months to a maximum of two years in prison for possession of analogues.

• Kelly Marie Luthringer, 36, of Edwardsburg, to two years of probation for possession of methamphetamine.

• Joseph Lee Emerson III, 21, of Cassopolis, to 110 days in jail and two years of probation for possession of marijuana, first-degree home invasion and conspiracy to commit second-degree home invasion.