Defendant says FAMU drum major wanted to be hazed

[The Northerner]

(CNN) -- A Florida A&M University drum major who died after enduring a school hazing ritual aboard a bus had asked to be hazed in order to earn respect, a criminal defendant said in court documents released on Wednesday.

Robert Champion, 26, died last year because of "hemorrhagic shock due to soft tissue hemorrhage, due to blunt force trauma," the Orange County medical examiner said.

"It's like a respect thing," said defendant Jonathan Boyce, who noted that Champion "was wanting to do it all season."

Some band members have said Champion died after taking part in a rite of passage called "Crossing Bus C," where students "walk from the front of the bus to the back of the bus backward while the bus is full of other band members."

"You get beaten until you get to the back," said one band member on the condition of anonymity.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/23/justice/florida-hazing/index.html

[The Magistrate]

1. Unfortunately For Boyce, Sir, Law Does Not Allow Consent As a Defense Against Charges Of Assault

[HopeHoops]

2. Fuck that noise. We just got drunk as hell on the bus - but that was high school.

One of the guys would mix up a couple of mason jars full of "suicide" (however much he could snitch from the liquor cabinet without it being noticed). Fun trips!

[provis99]

3. he wanted to be beaten to death?

why do I have trouble believing that?