Charges refiled against Penn State frat members Pleasing the kids
PHILADELPHIA — Nearly two months after a judge gutted the groundbreaking case against eight Penn State University fraternity members accused of fatally hazing a pledge, the Centre County district attorney on Friday refiled the mostserious charges — and asked for the case to be heard by a new judge.
The prosecutor, Stacy Parks Miller, brought back charges of involuntary manslaughter and felony aggravated assault against eight members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity in the February death of Tim Piazza, 19, a sophomore engineering major from New Jersey. She also refiled reckless-endangerment and other charges against three other members of the fraternity.
The charges were among scores of counts dismissed in early September by Centre County Judge Allen Sinclair after a preliminary hearing.
Parks Miller’s motion cited what she called “irreconcilable errors of law” by Sinclair. She also contends he failed to properly consider the evidence standard for a preliminary hearing, which doesn’t require prosecutors to prove their case at the same threshold as at a trial. member of the League of the South, a Southern secessionist group that has organized this weekend’s events in Shelbyville and nearby Murfreesboro. “It used to be just us and these peaceful liberals out there yelling at each other.”
The fear of counter-protesters, including left-wing anarchists, socialists and communists, has pushed the groups rallying this weekend to seek strength in numbers and hold joint events with other strands of white nationalists. several lawsuits against lawenforcement agencies in Baton Rouge after the July 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man.
Black Lives Matter movement leader DeRay Mckesson, 32, of Baltimore, is among 69 arrested protesters eligible for cash payments ranging from $500 to $1,000 now that the U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles has given his final approval. The judge said the total value of the settlement is about $136,000.
As many as 32 people were reported hurt in the Feb. 25 crash on the route of the Endymion parade.