• Jurors are deliberating in the trial of three former Florida A&M University band members charged in the 2011 hazing death of a former drum major.
Robert Champion died during a ritual known as, “Crossing Bus C.” It involved facing a gauntlet of band members on a bus who beat him with belts, mallets and drum sticks.
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• A former Florida A&M University band member says she submitted to a ritual prosecutors describe as hazing because she felt shunned for not doing it. The testimony came Wednesday in the trial of another former band member charged in the 2011 death of drum major Robert Champion.
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• Jury selection starts Monday in the trial of a former band member charged in the 2011 death of a Florida A&M University drum major. At the heart of the trial will be Florida’s hazing law.
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• A judge is limiting the use of the word “hazing” at trial in the case of a Florida A&M drum major who died after being beaten on a bus after a football match in Orlando. The judge ruled Wednesday after hearing from defense attorneys who argued jurors – not witnesses – should decide what constitutes hazing.
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