The Kappa 5 hazing will trial will go on as scheduled later this month. This morning a judge refused to drop the charges, meaning Florida's first felony hazing case is soon headed to court.Prosecutor Frank Allman said, "I don't know if both Mr. Jones and his father will be testifying."
Defense attorneys contend Jones was blindfolded and can't identify the men who beat him, and they claim the hazing statute doesn't clearly define the term "great bodily harm" anyway.
No...It doesn't define "serious bodily injury" not "great bodily harm"
ReplyDeleteThe boy was at work the next day after he was so "seriously" injured....the defense will definitely bring that up. This is a joke of a trial.
ReplyDeleteAlthough the victim went to work the next day, didn't his manager send him home because he looked roughed up? I thought I remembered reading a quote from the Democrat indicating that.
ReplyDeleteFAMU organizations have GOT to find other ways to initiate members than by hazing. That's a tradition that needs to END! It's barbaric.
ReplyDeleteIt is not up to the university to police the initiation of the organizations . . . it is up to the organizations to enfore the no hazing rules and the initiates to step up and say no. FAMU has nothing to do with this. Whatever happened to personal accountability?
ReplyDeleteOf course it is up the the universtiy to police any university-sanctioned group or activity. Any parent paying tuition would no doubt agree. And certainly the university has the right to suspend groups or activities for violating rules and regs. It needs to also follow rules and regs in disciplining the offending parties.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing we can all do now is let this case play out. All the "Court TV" commentary is mildly entertaining, but I know I can't call it, and neither can anybody else.
so what if the kid was at work the next day? kids think they're invincible. And so what if the defense attorneys bring this fact up? Lots of injuries don't actually show up and/or affect the person until a couple days later. Both parties are accountable. The so-called victim for letting someone mutilate him in that manner and the mutilating party, which has some kind of warped sense of what fraternal means. I believe, however, that the case will serve as a "case study" and nothing will be done to the guys on trial, except perhaps a probation of some sort, a fine, and/or some sort of verbal and/or written reprimand. For the most part, I believe that this thing will go nowhere. Soon, someone is going to start hollering racism. You know that's the battle cry when all else fails. Never mind all parties are the same color. Before you know it, Judge Kathleen Dekker will be accused of whipping that boy's ass herself.
ReplyDeleteThe state is looking to make some examples out of these young men. They need a better defense than the definition of "serious bodily injury". They are admitting that the injury occurred. I don't think that this is a "case study" at all, they are going to make some examples out of them. It is a shame that this will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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