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The state attorney general says his office cannot bring any more criminal or civil charges in the case of 7 boot camp guards and nurse in the death of a 14-year-old at the now-closed Bay County Boot Camp.  Last month, a jury acquitted all 8 defendants in the January 2006 death of Martin Lee Anderson.  But Bill McCollum says he’s committed to helping Anderson’s family.  In a statement, the attorney general said he’ll help the family go after the professional licenses of the former guards and nurse.

“The individuals who killed their child just go back to their normal lives as law enforcement officers and medical professionals and there’s nothing happening to them, said Ben Crump,” the Anderson family’s attorney.  “They wiped the death off their shoulders as you saw in the videotape.  It’s business as usual.  They’re saying that we want to try to make sure that they’re affected in a way that it would be a situation where you’re not allowed to be a law enforcement officer to go and do something like this again.”

Thousands of students are expected to march in Washington D.C. on Friday to put pressure on the U.S. Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against the former guards and nurse in the Anderson case.