Former AU student begins jail term 10/27/03
BYLINE: By Jim O'Hara Staff writer A former Alfred University fraternity member who admitted beating a fellow fraternity member - who later committed suicide - surrendered Wednesday to begin serving a 60-day jail sentence.
Adam Shain, 20, of Bernardsville, N.J., was sentenced Oct. 8 by Onondaga County Judge William Walsh to three years' probation with the first 60 days tobe served in the Onondaga County Correctional Facility in Jamesville.State Supreme Court Appellate Division Justice Leo Hayes ordered him released pending an appeal before Shain began serving the jail sentence. Last week, Hayes called the lawyers back into his chambers, rescinded the order and directed the defense to have Shain surrender to begin serving the sentence Walsh imposed. Shain pleaded guilty in July to first- degree hazing, second-degree unlawful imprisonment and third-degree assault charges in a February 2002 incident inwhich fellow fraternity member Benjamin Klein was assaulted at a Carrier Circle hotel and in a car en route back to the Alfred campus in Allegany County. Klein, 21, a junior at Alfred University from Vermont, was found dead in a creek behind his fraternity house several days after he, Shain and three other fraternity members returned from a regional fraternity conference in Onondaga County. Authorities said Klein's body was covered with bruises from the assaulthere, but determined he committed suicide with an overdose of prescription migraine medication. The other three fraternity members in the case also pleaded guilty for theirroles. From the Syracuse Post Standard
