A Florida high school student is getting rave reviews from his classmates and teachers for a speech he wrote and recently delivered to his senior class. As Katie LaGrone reports, for this young man it’s a speech a young lifetime in the making.
A Florida high school student is getting rave reviews from his classmates and teachers for a speech he wrote and recently delivered to his senior class.
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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 calls it a loophole. you ll hear from him and robert champion s own mother in just a moment. the fact is if the people accused of beating robert champion to death on this bus were charged with and convicted of manslaughter they d face up to 15 years in prison, not the 6 years of convicted felony hazing. the hazing statute identify the same offense, the unlawful taking of life whether by act or by negligence or recklessness. then there s the question of accountability on the part of the university and the elite band which has a history of brutal hazing. here s what happen
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