Walk It Through: The Initiation
A risk of serious bodily injury, aid given until a professional takes over, and consent that is no defense.
A student organization at a college says its initiation involves taking pills nobody will name.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One initiation at a college organization. Other crimes committed along the way, school discipline, and the separate protection for licensed providers and rescue squads 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.
- Emergency aidAssistance or medical aid given to a victim at the scene of an emergency in a reasonably prudent manner and without fee or other compensation. The individual who gives it is not civilly liable for any act or omission in giving it.
- HazingRecklessly or intentionally doing an act or creating a situation that subjects a student to the risk of serious bodily injury for the purpose of initiation into a student organization of a school, college or university.