Two former Florida A&M University fraternity brothers have pleaded no contest to violently hazing a pledge in 2006. The plea will help Michael Morton and Jason Harris avoid a third trial in the case.
Morton and Harris were convicted of beating a Kappa Alpha Psi pledge more than two years ago in the first test of Florida’s felony hazing statue; however, an appellate court reversed the convictions in August 2008.
The victim was beaten with wooden canes and suffered a ruptured eardrum and severe bruising to his buttocks. Morton and Harris served 614 days of their two-year jail sentence. With the reverse by the courts, both men will be cleared of the felony convictions because their sentences do not include probation.
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