Our View: With Erased Evidence Back, New Hearing Needs New Outcome

Moderator:  The last court hearing of incontrovertible video evidence by a low-ranking local magistrate in the hazing death of Tim Piazza resulted in the most serious charges being tossed. The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office needs to play the trump card of video evidence that Beta Theta Pi brothers erased, but which subsequently was recovered by local law enforcement. In my view, the facts point clearly to a need for homicide charges against the chapter ringleaders to stick and to proceed to a jury trial. Justice was not served in Pennsylvania the last go around. It must be served now. —Hank Nuwer