Carmel High School (Indiana) basketball case botched by prosecutor: my conclusion

Moderator: I have a meeting on hazing at the NCAA today so this is short. My conclusions? a) The prosecutor respectfully should rethink her decisions apart from the politics of Carmel. b) The people of Carmel need to compare the felony settlements given Robertson High School’s Steven Garcia (three felonies for football hazing that slid over into sexual assault) with the lightness of these charges. c) Thetaxpayers  of Carmel need to ask how much the school district paid off as a settlement in the 1998 Carmel hazing scandal. See  the Coopersville (Michigan) FOIA request by the Grand Rapids newspaper for precedent. d) The prosecutor’s handling of the case from beginning until yesterday’s press conference needs to be reviewed by an ethics board. e) The Carmel police department needs an impartial investigator to doublecheck handling of evidence. How and why did this video tape disappear and suddenly reappear. It must be determined there was no evidence tampering.  f) Why did the Carmel school wait so long to release its coaches? g) What role did the bus driver play in the skirmish on the bus that resulted in the victimization of a player? What did the driver see in that large mirror? Those are my conclusions and a question–HN

See the long Indianapolis Star comment for details, particularly the quote attributed to Scott Newman. The article is very long. Click all links.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20100518/LOCAL01/5180333/We-may-never-know-what-happened