![]() Only Fina and one other attorney for 16 individual defendants _ two others waived their right to the hearing _ got a chance to question Scicchitano on Monday the others will get their chance when the hearing resumes Tuesday at the Centre County Courthouse. ![]() "The compulsion was to gain acceptance into the fraternity," Scicchitano responded. It usually means "physical compulsion," he said. In his cross-examination of the detective on Monday, Fina, a former state prosecutor who represents Beta Theta Pi president Brendan Young, a 21-year-old from Malvern, questioned what constitutes force. They say the fraternity members forced him and other pledges to drink copious amounts of alcohol and complete a "gauntlet" where the young men chugged vodka, beer and wine. Last month, prosecutors spent three hours showing Judge Allen Sinclair gruesome video footage from the night Piazza, a sophomore from Lebanon, N.J., participated in a hazing ritual and twice fell down a flight of stairs, suffering a brain injury, ruptured spleen and collapsed lung that killed him. 4 death will stand trial for crimes including involuntary manslaughter, assault and hazing. The questions came as a district judge resumed the preliminary hearing to determine if Beta Theta Pi members charged in Piazza's Feb. "Who made that decision to drink? The pledge or someone else?" lawyer Frank Fina asked State College Police Detective David Scicchitano. Tried to chip away at the case Monday, raising questions about the charges, who isn't being held accountable, and whether anyone "forced" the 19-year-old pledge to consume a lethal amount of alcohol. ![]() _ Lawyers for the Pennsylvania State University fraternity members accused in
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