ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ Experts say that when prosecutors announce criminal charges Wednesday in the hazing death of a Florida A&M University band member, they will embark on a legal chess game involving multiple defendants who require
different approaches for winning convictions.
Prosecutors have prepared at least five separate cases against the suspects who contributed to 26-year-old Robert Champion’s death aboard a chartered bus parked outside an Orlando hotel last November.
Detectives say Champion was hazed by other band members following a performance against a rival school.
Witnesses told emergency dispatchers Champion was vomiting before he was found unresponsive aboard the bus.
The medical examiner’s office in Orlando ruled that Champion had bruises to his chest, arms, shoulder and back and internal bleeding that caused him to go into shock, which killed him.
