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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Two Florida A & M University fraternity members are seeking a new trial after their conviction earlier this month on hazing charges involving a Georgia man.
Lawyers for Kappa Alpha Psi brothers Michael Morton, and Jason Harris, filed motions this week.
They’re objecting to some decisions made by Judge Kathleen Dekker during jury selection and the judge’s definition of “serious bodily injury,” a key element in the crime of felony hazing.
The two were convicted December 15 of hazing Marcus Jones—of Decatur—who was seeking to join the fraternity.
Three other defendants were also on trial, but a mistrial was declared in their case when the jury couldn’t reach a verdict.
Jones said he was beaten by canes and hit with boxing gloves so hard he temporarily lost some hearing and needed surgery on his
buttocks. The fraternity brothers were the first in Florida to be tried for felony hazing, put into law in 2005.
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