checking state laws to see if there s anything more he can do without cooperative victims. but he believes, this is the lieutenant investigating, believes that hazing laws in the state of washington only apply to colleges and units and not at the high school level. don? all right. sara, thank you for that. for your reporting. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst now, sunny hostin. sunny, the school says it did not sanction this group called naked viks. but the group did appear at school functions. football games. does the school have any legal responsibility here? well, no question about it. the school has legal exposure. the school can certainly be charged civilly for negligent supervision and criminally as well. i ve got to tell you, i was listening to sara and sitting here thinking, well, we try cases as prosecutors all the time without the cooperation of victims. without the cooperation of witnesses. i can t begin, don, to tell you
he s a genius in terms of crisis management. i do think there s a distinction to be made between when apologies work and when they don t. it depends on the audience. there s certain people like a rush limbaugh. if rush limbaugh made a comment like this, where an apology would be enough, right? his fan base is not going to be as outraged about this type of language. he s someone who uses racial innuendo to fuel his fan base and fire up his fan base. when your fan base is middle americans who like to think of themselves as fwood people, and we li ve in a country today usig the n word does not denote any longer you re a good person, that s problematic. there s a lot to be discussed with this. we ll discuss it on cnn. for now our time is up with this one. thanks to all of you. more to come, as i said, on cnn. coming up this hour on newsroom, a case of brutal hazing at washington state high school. at a washington state high school. so far no charges have been filed. why? because th
what he had to endure. they used pvc pipes, the headless club clubs and flour and maple syrup. they peeed on us and stuff. reporter: will says he and six other juniors were blindfolded, taken to a wooded area and beaten. here s where a lit cigar was put out on his skin. every time i look at that i just want to cry. it s not right. these kids need to be stopped. reporter: you would think this is all authorities would need to take action. but it s not that simple. the county sheriff s office told cnn none of the seven, including james, are cooperating with police. until they do, there may never be an arrest. here s what an investigator told me. quote, we can t make a person a victim if they don t want to be. the ones who are asasaulted hav
martha stewart and he s one among the most prominent republicans who support gay marriage. okay. that s it. now to florida. new twodevelopments in the triaf neighborhood watchman george zimmerman. an all female jury will decide zimmerman s fate. opening statements will be monday in the second degree murder trial. the judge issued her ruling on what prosecutors can and cannot say just a short time ago. we re waiting for her written order on a 911 tape. she ll decide if prosecutors can play the tape in court from the night trayvon martin was shot and killed. zimmerman says he fired at martin in self-defense in february of last year. i want you to take a listen to the tape. does he look hurt to you? i can t see him. i don t want to go out there. i don t know what s going on. they re sending so you think he s yelling help? yes. what is your cnn legal correspondent jean casarez joins us now. following this story from the
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