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Why would they be granted a venue change for these charges...they are bunk charges anyway. These kids are not getting charged with anything that is all that significant or that fits what happened.
 
All charges unfortunately, ended up as misdemeanors. It will be almost like paying for a speeding ticket. Community service more than likely. The civil suit may be a different story, however. This whole thing makes me sick!
 
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Change of venues are expensive for the county that has to move the trial and judges are allowed to consider that fact. They are rarely granted.
 

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They are misdeamenors. No different than getting an underage drinking ticket, in actuality. Misdemeanor battery is just "getting into a fight" and criminal recklessness is the same as "toilet papering" someones house and getting caught. There is no reason to change the venue...pointless and polictical move by the defendant's lawyers to postpone it even further.
None of these kids will get jail...at all. They will get 500 hours of community service and move on. No judge in Hamilton, Hendricks or any other county is going to give these kids jail time, they all have "clean" records. The charges that the prosecutor brought are ones that she is guaranteed to get a guilty verdict on, because the burden of proof is so little. There will be no reasonable doubt that they are guilty of these misdemeanors. It is a sad situation.

But when this goes to civil court (if it does) you will see some pretty serious "shit" no pun intended, come out. But I don't think this will end up there either. It will get settled.
 
That's probably when they will get a chance to pick up the "loose change"! (pun intended). Sack, our opinions are identical on this one. To the T.
 
A misdemeanor battery conviction looks far worse on someone's record though than an under age drinking conviction. Potential employers see that stuff and the parents will have the attorneys fighting as hard as they can to avoid it.
 
A misdemeanor battery conviction would never be brought up...how many applications do you see that ask if you have been convicted of a misdemeanor? Some but not many. How many ask about felonies? Every single one. And besides, a midemeanor batter conviction can be explained away pretty simply...just by the nature of the charges. "I got into a fight defending my friend...blah, blah, blah." As an example.

I wouldn't want that on my child's record either, but the reality is that these kids could easily be charged with felony battery and last time I checked there was a hazing law on the books in Indiana that made it a felony as well. The prosecutor even used the term, "hazing' to describe what happened...go figure.

Check it out...to long to quote, but if you read down through the law....you can't tell me that several of the statutes don't fit with this case...http://www.stophazing.org/laws/in_law.htm
 
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These days court records are easily searchable online and you better believe employers look at them and many will take them into account. Will it matter in 10 years, probably not? But in five, when they're graduating college and looking for their first job, it will.
 
Of course the news stories about what they've done are also easily searchable, will be searched and will be asked about. I know people who've had to explain things on the Internet that didn't amount to a felony conviction. Employers do look at that stuff and it can make the difference.
 
Oh I agree with you...I have done multiple presentations to college students about Facebook, their profiles, searchable information about them, etc. But my point is that this doesn't amount to anything. These kids shoved a cell phone up another human beings A%#...

And are getting off pretty easily in terms of the law. The civil situation will be interesting.

And these kids will leave the state to go to school I would have to bet...and stay out of the state for several years. That won't stop internet searches at all, but it won't be as well known in other states.
 
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