Regis Philbin
Sep 26th, 2006, 06:55 PM
Looks like terrorists have more rights than our college kids. :noway:
There's a passage in the Bible that says something to the effect that in the last days what's right will be wrong and what's wrong will be right and people will be so confused they won't be able to tell the difference.
I think we're there now... :o
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/NEWS01/609220338/1010/NEWS01
Originally published September 22, 2006
Defense asks for dismissal in hazing case
Attorneys for FAMU students challenge statute
By Chitra Subramanyam
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
Defense attorneys for four of five Florida A&M University students charged with hazing filed a motion to dismiss all charges Thursday, three days before they were scheduled to go on trial.
The motion challenges the constitutionality of the hazing statute as it fails to define the phrase "serious bodily injury".
Jones received severe injuries to his buttocks and suffered a ruptured eardrum.
The case was initially scheduled to go on trial Sept. 12 but got postponed to Sept. 25 after assistant state attorney Frank Allman filed a motion to continue.
The present motion was filed after Judge Kathleen Dekker denied two motions to dismiss that were filed on Sept. 8.
Today's motion states that since the hazing statute fails to define "serious bodily injury", it is "unconstitutionally void for vagueness under the Due Process Clause of both the Florida and United States Constitution".
Chuck Hobbs, defense attorney for Bowman, Hughes and Gray, said that he and the other defense attorneys, Richard Keith Alan II and Gary Roberts, evaluated the court's Sept. 12 ruling.
"We recognized that the court had recognized in its ruling that the statute was not defined," Hobbs said, "so we have spent the last week researching the issue and felt that the proper remedy is to dismiss the case because we felt that the statute was vague as to the definition of serious bodily injury."
Prosecutor Allman said he couldn't comment as he hadn't read the motion.
There's a passage in the Bible that says something to the effect that in the last days what's right will be wrong and what's wrong will be right and people will be so confused they won't be able to tell the difference.
I think we're there now... :o
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060922/NEWS01/609220338/1010/NEWS01
Originally published September 22, 2006
Defense asks for dismissal in hazing case
Attorneys for FAMU students challenge statute
By Chitra Subramanyam
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
Defense attorneys for four of five Florida A&M University students charged with hazing filed a motion to dismiss all charges Thursday, three days before they were scheduled to go on trial.
The motion challenges the constitutionality of the hazing statute as it fails to define the phrase "serious bodily injury".
Jones received severe injuries to his buttocks and suffered a ruptured eardrum.
The case was initially scheduled to go on trial Sept. 12 but got postponed to Sept. 25 after assistant state attorney Frank Allman filed a motion to continue.
The present motion was filed after Judge Kathleen Dekker denied two motions to dismiss that were filed on Sept. 8.
Today's motion states that since the hazing statute fails to define "serious bodily injury", it is "unconstitutionally void for vagueness under the Due Process Clause of both the Florida and United States Constitution".
Chuck Hobbs, defense attorney for Bowman, Hughes and Gray, said that he and the other defense attorneys, Richard Keith Alan II and Gary Roberts, evaluated the court's Sept. 12 ruling.
"We recognized that the court had recognized in its ruling that the statute was not defined," Hobbs said, "so we have spent the last week researching the issue and felt that the proper remedy is to dismiss the case because we felt that the statute was vague as to the definition of serious bodily injury."
Prosecutor Allman said he couldn't comment as he hadn't read the motion.