This is interesting. Legal jockeying in the press over the beating death of 26-year-old Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion is already underway.
The Orlando Sentinel quotes Christopher Chestnut, the attorney of Champion's family, as saying that although 26-year-old Champion was gay, that's not primarily why he was beaten to death: "Our investigation is very clear: This was hazing, not a hate crime.”
On the other hand, Chuck Hobbes, attorney for Julian White, the university's band director, who presumably could be partially liable in the death for not stopping hazing among his charges, is suggesting that if Champion was targeted because he was gay, then White's antihazing efforts couldn't have saved him.
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