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Jesse Baskins could get nine years in jail after plea bargaining in Robert Champion death at Florida A & M

Moderator:  Two defendants accepted plea bargaining rather than go to trial and take the full consequences of a possible manslaughter and Chad Meredith (Florida) Law hazing conviction with 20+ years possible for both.  If anyone continues to even think about beating a pledge or band member in the future, thinking about nine years in prison ought to give real pause. Hank Nuwer

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Band member Harold Finley gets off relatively easy with one year of house arrest.

The prosecutor’s fingers point to Jesse Baskins as perhaps the key beater in the Robert Champion death. Sentencing for him comes later. –Hank Nuwer

 

 

By Hank Nuwer

Journalist Hank Nuwer is the Alaska author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives; Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader. He has written articles or columns on hazing for the Sunday Times of India, Toronto Globe & Mail, Harper's Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. His current book is Hazing: Destroying Young Lives from Indiana University Press. He is married to Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer of Warsaw, Poland and Fairbanks, Alaska. Nuwer is a former columnist for the Greenville (Ohio)Early Bird and former managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.
Nuwer was named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists columnist of the year in 2021 for his “After Darke” column in the Early Bird. He also won third place for the column in 2022 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He and his wife Gosia, recently of Union City, Ind., have owned 20 acres in Alaska for many years. “The move is a sort-of coming home for us,” said Nuwer. As a journalist, he’s written about the Alaskan Iditarod sled-dog race and other Alaska topics. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com and in his weekly column "Far from Randolph" in the Winchester Star-Gazette of Randolph County, Indiana.

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