An independent hearing examiner is recommending expulsion for the 12-year-old boy who allegedly brought a BB gun to Cherokee Heights Middle School, but for a shorter duration than what Madison School District administrators had sought in the widely publicized case.
Hearing examiner recommends expulsion, but for shorter period, for boy with alleged BB gun at school
Dereian Brown, a sixth-grader at Cherokee Heights Middle School, sits through his expulsion hearing Jan. 4 with attorneys Nick Gansner, left, and Matthew Giesfeldt, right, at the Madison School District’s Doyle Administration Building. In the foreground are the district’s legal counsel Dylan Pauly, left, and Hong Tran, right, an assistant principal at the school.





