BATON ROUGE, La. AP – A second Bourbon Street bouncer was acquitted Thursday of squeezing the life from a visiting Georgia college student whose friends had been turned away from a New Orleans karaoke bar on New Year’s Eve 2004.

Jurors deliberated 2 hours before acquitting Clay Montz of Metairie of manslaughter in the death of Levon Jones, 26, of Statesboro, Ga.