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Posted: 5:46 PM Oct 10, 2008
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Sunday is the one-year anniversary of the not-guilty verdict in the boot camp death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson.

The teen was kicked and kneed by guards as a nurse watched during the first hour of his stay in the Panama City Boot Camp. He died shortly thereafter.

The state later settled for $5 million with his parents. Mother Gina Jones says her life hasn’t been the same since the death, and nothing has changed her or her attorney’s mind that that guards got away with murder.

She said, "Knowing what was done to Martin was wrong, and the ones who did it is still walking around like nothing else ever happened."

The family's attorney, Benjamin Crump, said, "You want to believe that the justice department is going to do something and it's one of those things, but the justice department never did anything, so we are gonna try and keep having faith in the system."

The NAACP asked for a federal investigation into whether the guards violated Martin’s civil rights. There has been no inquiry or investigation.

The family is hoping a new administration may reopen the case.

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