bus c. it was his choice? his choice. reporter: 11 famu band members face hazing charges. two face misdemeanor charges. they all have pleaded not guilty. julienne white insists he didn t know about the hazing. the bus c initiation, i heard about it after robert s death. reporter: you d never heard a reference to it before that? no. reporter: champion s full autopsy shows he had a slightly enlarged heart. but this diagram included in the autopsy shows contusion marks and tissue damage consistent with enduring a beating. a judge set an october trial date for the 11 band members charged with felony hazing. now it is more likely that trial will take place next year. rob and paula? all right, thanks a lot, t.j. we turn now to another college campus rocked by scandal. the results of an internal penn state investigation into the jerry sandusky sex abuse case will be released today. at the center of the scandal is whether coach joe paterno knew sandusky was a pedophile. in a
clearly want someone held responsible for their son s death. first they sued the bus company involved. now they re suing the university. florida a & m president james ammons has resigned the day the parents of drum major robert champion added the university to a wrongful death lawsuit. they need to clean house. and that s the only way. reporter: 26-year-old champion died last november after being beaten by fellow band members during a hazing ritual on a bus called crossing bus c. now the journey begins for us to figure out how we can eradicate a culture, not just a florida problem, it s an american problem. reporter: this man went through the same ritual, walking one end of the bus to the other. he told espn s outside the lines, champion did it voluntarily. people that disrespect me, are going to respect me, i did
the hearing. not only do they want to hear from the director of the u.s. secret service, mark sullivan, what happened in columbia. this is the first time we ll hear publicly from the director himself. but also what the secret service investigation has found, and then the lingering question, many lingering questions, of is there a pattern here or a culture that has been many questions been raised within the secret service that the secret service should have seen this coming as senator lieberman has said. listen first here to the chairman. it is hard for many people, including me, i will admit, to believe that on one night in april 2012, in columbia, 12 secret service agents there to protect the president suddenly and spontaneously did something they or other agents had never done before. which is gone out in groups of two, three, or four to four different nightclubs or strip clubs, drink to excess, and then bring foreign national women back to their hotel rooms. now, i wil
florida a & m drum major. julie banderas is tracking this story. reporter: a brutal ritual that s gone phone at least two decades will go to trial after the beating death of a florida a & m drum major, the last of 11 band members found responsible in his hazing death, lasheri codener, she has turned herself in to authorities and will be released after posting $15,000 bond. codener joins ten others who face charges of hazing with death, which is punishable under florida law by a maximum of six years in prison, steming from robert champion s death in november. two others face misdemeanor counts. champion died on a bus, beaten so badly his body has gone into fatal shock during a brutal hazing ritual known as crossing bus c, the reference c reference the bus assigned to transport the per cushion session.
11 participants, that s one of them with hazing. in convicted the maximum anyone could face would be six years in prison. again, the question is why not murder or manslaughter charges? one answer says state prosecutors is that it would be tough getting convictions with the evidence that they have. the testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder in that it does not contain the elements of murder. we can prove participation in hazing and a death. we do not have a blow or a shot or a knife thrust that killed mr. champion. it is an aggregation of things which exactly fit the florida statute as written by the legislature. well, that statute was written seven years ago with the best intentions to hold people accountable for hazing deaths. you have to wonder, though, does the very fact that it s on the books allow some people to pay lighter penalties for causing someone s death than would otherwise be the case? the attorney for the champion family says so. he