WHITFIELD: The death of a Florida A&M; University drum major will be treated as a homicide. A medical examiner says Robert Champion Junior died of blunt force trauma in a, quote, "hazing incident." Earlier I talked about the case with our legal guys, Richard and Avery, who predicted where the investigation might go next.</s>RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes, it's horrible, Fred. They're going to unturn every stone to look into the hazing activities that have been going on at this university, and, frankly, hazing activities which go on in universities all over the country. And not only universities, but high schools as well. So every now and then we see a fatality, everybody gets in an uproar. They rant and rave how hazings must end. It dies down for a while, and then an incident like this comes to fruition. It's horrible. This death was unnecessary. And, you know, the band may be taken away from this university for a while. I think that's what's going to happen.</s>WHITFIELD: And also at issue here is a pattern. So, Avery, investigators are looking at there are other allegations of hazing incidents on campus. This death is being linked to, you know, alleged hazing on campus. So how are investigators going to look at how far was this common knowledge of such alleged hazing on campus, violent or otherwise?</s>AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Well, it - let me tell you something, Fredricka, this - this process of hazing, which is nothing more than assault and battery, has been going on for 65 years. But at Florida A&M;, it appears -</s>HERMAN: Longer.</s>FRIEDMAN: -- that officials have been looking the other way. And the bottom line is, that it will require an intensive effort to look into it. The president --</s>WHITFIELD: And you can catch the brilliant minds of our legal guys every Saturday, noon Eastern.
Band Death Ruled A Homicide