I posted this in the online forums by mistake at first but im in the right forum now :)

I learn of this case about 3 years back on cnn and its a case that really upset me.  14 year old Martin Lee Anderson was send to this boot camp and within 3 hours he was dead.  He was beated by 7 guards while a nurse stood by and let it happen, plus it was video taped, all 7 of been let off today.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/16/florida.boot.camp.death/index.html  from CNN today.

The guards were punching him even as he laid dieding.  But the thing is the nurse could of stopped it at anytime but she choose not too.  But the lads mother has vowed to take the case further.

More than four years after the death of 14-year-old Florida boot camp inmate Martin Lee Anderson, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced no federal criminal civil rights charges will be filed against eight staff members.  The announcement effectively closes the case.

In 2007, a Florida jury found seven guards and a nurse not guilty of  manslaughter and related charges in Anderson's death. Anderson was African-American, and the guards were white and African-American.

Im not a american and it has nothing to do with me as im from the UK but its really shocking and checking back over the last 10 years its not a one-off.

I'd expect shit like this from the russian military, but from the US army?

That's an epic failure on so many different levels it's mind boggling.

I think the point is being missed.  The guards were found guilty under Florida law... for Manslaughter.

The charges NOT being levied here are Civil Rights penalties.

AKA that this was a hate crime because he was black.

Wow that's pretty tragic, I would just call for good old retribution.

Additionally this wasn't the Military. It was a Florida state program.

I mean, you do realize that... right Canch.  These people were already found guilty and sentenced for killing the boy.

This is purely the government ruling that it was not racism that lead to his death.

that's pretty terrible, I mean hoe can nurse, who is trained to help people stand by while someone else is beaten to death...

really, I must of missed that... did they get send to prison, fined or what? 

I actually I read that sentence wrong.  I thought it said they found the guards guilty and the nurse not guilty.  However it appears the jury found them all not guity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7042429.stm more info here on why the case went the way it did.

Either way, all this ruling did was show it wasn't race related, which likely was just a hail mary to try and find them guilty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7042429.stm

Acquitted instead, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter#Criminally_negligent_manslaughter this seems the closest to what they did, but even if the court ruled that evidence didn't suffice, I find it disturbing that they weren't charged with anything. At least that's what the bbc news piece suggests:

edit: beat me by a minute :)

Okay, so it wasn't even a military outfit, but a state program. Makes it even worse IMO. And the fact that the nurse didn't even try to intervene is outright disgusting, and the person responsible is an outright disgrace to her profession.

Also, could you post a link or something to a source that states the guards were found guilty and sentenced under Florida law? According to Wikipedia and all articles that I can find on Google, these guys really got off scot-free.

EDIT: Nevermind.