Ten LSU students face charges in connection with last month’s hazing death of 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver. All are facing a misdemeanor hazing charge and Matthew Alexander Naquin is also charged with negligent homicide. Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says Naquin was singled out due to his alleged role in the incident…
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The coroner’s report says Gruver had an alochol level of .495 when he died.

Sean Pennison is one of the ten LSU students arrested as part of the investigation into Gruver’s death. His attorney Franz Borghardt says Pennison has only been charged with hazing…
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Borghardt says this is also a difficult time for those who turned themselves in today, because the fraternity members considered Max their friend.

As a result of criminal justice reform measures passed in the last legislative session, 14-hundred inmates in Louisiana will be released early from prison in November. Caddo Sheriff Steve Prator said some extremely dangerous criminals could be back on our streets. But Criminal Justice Reform Field Director for the Southern Poverty Law Center John Burkhardt believes that isn’t true…:
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He adds safety checks are performed before each individual is released.

East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Nick Tullier, shot in a police ambush last summer, has moved from rehab to a transitional learning center; a major step in his recovery. His father, James Tullier, says Nick continues to beat the odds…:
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