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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:59 PM May 2012

13 Charged in Hazing Death of Robert Champion

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Thirteen people have been charged in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major from DeKalb County who died after being hazed aboard a band bus in Orlando last fall, authorities said Wednesday.

At least five people will face criminal charges in the hazing death of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion aboard a band bus in Orlando last fall.

He called the beating death of 26-year-old Robert Champion "nothing short of an American tragedy."

He said Champion's death was not the result of a single blow but was "attributable to multiple blows."

The medical examiner's office in Orlando found last year that Champion had bruises to his chest, arms, shoulder and back and internal bleeding that caused him to go into shock, which killed him.

http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/1313-charged-in-famu-1429796.html

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13 Charged in Hazing Death of Robert Champion (Original Post) joeybee12 May 2012 OP
Fuck bullies! Fuck 'em all. longship May 2012 #1
Did the band director know that the hazing was going on and if so, what did he do to stop it? ladjf May 2012 #2
Julian White was actively trying to get rid of the hazing for two decades. tammywammy May 2012 #3
Needed to do more than he did. ladjf May 2012 #5
A maximum sentence of 6 years, for killing someone with intended violence? muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #4

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. Fuck bullies! Fuck 'em all.
Wed May 2, 2012, 06:04 PM
May 2012

They bullied him to death.

This is what prisons were made for.

Book 'em, Danno!

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)
3. Julian White was actively trying to get rid of the hazing for two decades.
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:33 PM
May 2012

Two weeks before Champion's death, White had suspended 26 band members for hazing.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
5. Needed to do more than he did.
Tue May 8, 2012, 12:30 AM
May 2012

He should have enlisted help from the administration and the police. If he had already suspended 26 players and yet the hazing had
contued he obviously had lost control of the organization. At that point, it had become a University and law enforcement problem.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
4. A maximum sentence of 6 years, for killing someone with intended violence?
Thu May 3, 2012, 06:45 AM
May 2012

More Florida laws that need to be changed.

"Lamar said 11 of the suspects would be charged with hazing with death, a felony which carries a maximum sentence of six years. He said the evidence in the case would not support a charge of murder."

I'd have though it's second degree murder:

Second degree murder cases often involve a death that allegedly occurred because of a heat of passion or act that was so dangerous is warrants a criminal action be brought against the Defendant. The classic example is the spouse who finds their partner having an affair with another person and immediately acts to kill either the partner or the partner's lover. In order to convict a defendant in Florida of Second-degree murder, the State of Florida must prove the following three elements beyond a reasonable doubt:

The victim is dead;
The death was caused by the criminal act of the defendant;
There was an unlawful killing of the victim by an act imminently dangerous to another and demonstrating a depraved mind without regard for human life.

Understanding a second degree murder can be more confusing than the more serious first degree murder. The "criminal act" reference in the statute must be a single event or series of related actions arising from and performed pursuant to a single design or purpose of committing the murder or creating the dangerous condition that led to the death. Although second-degree murder can carry a potential incarceration of up to life in prison, the death penalty cannot be imposed on a person found guilty of second-degree murder.

http://www.arnoldlawfirmllc.com/CM/Custom/SecondDegreeMurder.asp


I'd think that some jurisdiction would just call it simple murder.
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