Walk It Through: The Initiation
Hazing regardless of willingness, graded by harm, and immunity for care in good faith.
New members of a school organization are told they will be locked in a basement overnight.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One school organization's initiation. Other crimes committed along the way, school discipline, and the conditions on immunity for a defibrillator's owner and trainer 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 careCare a person renders at the scene of any emergency or accident in good faith. The person is immune from civil liability for acts or omissions in rendering it.
- Class A misdemeanorThe highest misdemeanor class: up to $10,000, up to 9 months, or both.
- HazingIntentionally or recklessly endangering a student's physical health or safety for initiation, admission or affiliation with an organization connected with a school, college or university.