Posted on 12/18/2006 1:41:31 AM PST by Zakeet
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Two Florida fraternity brothers were convicted of felony hazing Friday in a trial seen as a test of a new law restricting the practice, but jurors were unable to reach a verdict on three other defendants.
The five Kappa Alpha Psi brothers at Florida A&M University, the first people charged under the anti-hazing law, were accused of punching an aspiring member, Marcus Jones, 20, of Decatur, Ga., and beating his buttocks with canes during an initiation, or aiding those who did.
Jurors found former chapter president Michael Morton, 23, and Jason Harris, 23, guilty of breaking a law that makes it a felony to cause "serious bodily injury" through hazing.
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Morton was accused of striking Jones on the buttocks, while Harris was accused of facilitating the hazing. The other three defendants were accused of hitting Jones with canes.
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The two face sentences ranging from probation to five years in prison.
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Thank you sir - May I have another! (From Animal House) I agree with you - my experience is that football teams and frats have some type of initiation process and there is nothing wrong with it if the pledge knows there will be an initiation and agrees to go through it.
They are outlawing consensual acts.
The law is obscenely unconstitutional and nannyist.
Never liked frats and frat stuff. However, I think hazing is part of the tradition and others should butt out unless it becomes extreme and life-threatening.
A little caning never hurt anybody. :-)
However, if you frat boys are into those things just do not do it in public and do not demand that you should be able to get married.
On the contrary, it is the sodomites and their liberaltarian fellow travellers like yourself ("I would be opposed to the government cracking down...") who have taken innocent expressions of normal young male exuberance and energy and ridiculed them to make them seem "homoerotic". You've clearly never crossed the equator on a USN ship, where similar rituals are proudly practiced by our fighting men, or at least were in my day before they went and feminized our military.
Any man that would permit another man to cane, whip or insert fruits and vegetables in to his rectum has some issues and those issues are grounded in his sexual preference. Bottom line, both the leather boy and the frat boy that participates in this behavior is a sodomite.
This is a black fraternity.
What on earth does race have to do with this story?
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