A former member of the Florida A&M University marching band accused in the hazing of a female clarinet player last year has completed a diversion program offered by the State Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors dismissed the misdemeanor hazing charge against James R. Harris III, 23, on Aug. 1, according to court records in Tallahassee.
He was one of three band members charged in the hazing of Bria Hunter, a first-year band member treated at a hospital after being beaten during a meeting of the “Red Dawg Order,” a FAMU band subgroup from Georgia. Read about the other two defendants.