Walk It Through: The Initiation
Consent that is no defense, the call that brings no charge, and care given before help arrives.
A student joining a club is told to drink until sick, and the members say everyone agreed to it.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One party and one pledge. School discipline, the planning and organizing offense, and the overdose immunity section are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Gratuitously and in good faithThe two conditions on which a person who renders emergency care at a public gathering or the scene of an emergency is not liable for damages from an act or omission in rendering it.
- HazingCausing, coercing or forcing a minor or student, to initiate or keep them in an organization, to engage in or endure humiliation, brutality, dangerous consumption, confinement or other conduct the section lists. A class 1 misdemeanor, and a class 4 felony if a person dies.
- Misdemeanor classHow Arizona grades misdemeanors: class 1 carries up to six months and $2,500, class 2 up to four months and $750, class 3 up to 30 days and $500.