Cory Gray, Brian Bowman and Marcus Hughes will go to trial a third time on March 12 on charges of hazing.
The new trial date for three members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Florida A&M University who were accused of hazing was set at a hearing this morning.
Previously, hazing charges against the three resulted in a mistrial and then a hung jury.
FSU frat draws hazing charges
The four students were arrested after 31 pledges of the Florida State chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity were found in a crawl space under an off-campus house on Bonnie Drive early Saturday morning, authorities said
Read more: FSU/TCC students charged in hazing incident
Two found guilty
Retrial set for December
Judge ask to dismiss case
Kappas file suit against FAMU
Isn't it also a crime to "allow yourself to be hazed?"
ReplyDeleteWill these kids ever learn...I tell my son, don't let your mugshot show up in the news behind some dumbshtuff.
What a shame..a waste of taxpayer dollars! I mean really two years in prison and we have murderors and rapist and pedafiles getting off scott free. How's that for justice? Im not condoning the actions of the nupes but my God two years, I feel that is a bit excessive. WTH? Is this judge serious? These young men have learnd themselves a valuable lesson and let's hope they wont pay for the rest of their lives for poor choices they have made in their youth. Boys keep your butts tights and be careful.
ReplyDeleteLet's be real about this. One dude was a former SGA Senate president, and another was NPHC president at the time (now if that ain't irony). If you bad enough to hold such prominent positions and conduct yourselves in such a very uncouth and ILLEGAL manner, then you should expect to be made example of. This was the state's first opportunity to enforce its new hazing laws--we should expect the courts to make EXAMPLES of these guys. I wouldn't be surprised to see similar fates for the other three.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't mean that the guy who was hazed is completely absolved. But the punishment was necessary to send the message to GLOs that this ish will no longer be tolerated.
And trust and believe, hazing will always continue to take place. No matter how much or how little time those young men received; they were made poor examples of, because Hazing will never stop. Just read yesterdays headlines about FSU and TCC students hazing 31 pledges. Hazing isn't right, I understand both sides of the field. But if you allow yourself to take a beating, 100% of the blame is yours. I pray for the victim and the for accused.
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ReplyDeleteand for the accused. My bad on the typo!
Hazing may never be stopped but I bet folks will pause to see if the consequences are going to be worth the risk from now on. The standard has been set. I think that if they had not been sent to jail then this would not have been taken seriously.
ReplyDeleteI am no fan of this law that does not account for the willfulness of the "victim" to "consent" to such treatment. We're talking about grown a**ed men and women who decide to pledge and submit themselves to this, not some 14 or 15 year old without a clue who needs to be protected by the law. However, the intent of this law may have been to shift the blame on those with the "power", much like in cases of sexual harrassment between supervisors and subordinates.
I agree with the above post that we should have expected an example to be made of these two and perhaps of the other three as well. On a maybe unrelated note, I don't think they came across as too remorseful and may have been perceived as somewhat cocky.
Nevertheless, this is terrible and two lives have been ruined. I wonder if they think it was worth it.
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ReplyDeleteIm sure they didnt think it was worth it in hindsight,w/o knowing nay of them. Mr. Jones is just as bad ans shoudlnt be left off the hook. Morton and Harris didnt need to go to college for this; these guys are covicted felons hazing mofos.We have enough young black men in the correctional system who didnt realize that their were consequences for their actions. these two shoudlve been a bit smarter than that.
wait until the get to prison, that's when the real hazing will begin.
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine telling guys what you're in for. I stabbed my ex-wife; I robbed 10 houses; I hazed a pledge.
i don't think the lives of the two men "are ruined," which is what i keep hearing and reading. i do, however, believe that perhaps part of the sentencing stemmed from the no-remorsefullness behavior on each of their parts. one of the young men did not want to make a statement prior to the sentencing, not that it would have done any good, but i think perhaps a bit of contrition on their part may have help soften the blow by just a t-ny-chy bit. i think the two who are going to prison appeared a bit arrogant, especially the oldest of the duo, the 25-year-old Harris. they each willhave plenty time to think about life and the consequences of misbehaving badly. i'm sort of ambiguous on the punishment, though.
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