Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died after being beaten by guards at the Bay County Boot Camp on January 5. The boot camp is operated by the Bay County Sheriff's Department and overseen by Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice.

TALLAHASSEE - Martin Lee Anderson's family might have to wait until after the Nov. 7 election -- or even a year after their boy's death at a Panama City boot camp -- to see if any of the guards will be charged.

Martin's parents and their attorney, Benjamin Crump, said today that they also wanted to meet again with Gov. Jeb Bush, but he refused.

Crump said the family was informed by the special prosecutor probing the case that he might file charges in the coming months, if ever. Crump said the prosecutor, Mark Ober, had earlier told him and others that charges would come this month.

Ober said in a written statement that ''I understand and sympathize with the frustration expressed by the family'' and that his ''office has made significant progress'' in the case, but he ``cannot give a definitive timeline, (and) the investigation will not be complete until I am satisfied that we have gathered and analyzed all relevant information.''

A spokesman for Bush said the governor, who signed an act cracking down on boot camps after Martin's death and had met with the family in the past, could not meet on such short notice with the family because his work schedule was booked up.

Crump said the family just wanted 15 minutes of Bush's time. Gina Jones said she wanted to ask the governor ''how would you feel'' if his son had died in a similar circumstance and no arrests had been made.

''The people should be outraged,'' Crump said, noting the scrum of boot camp guards were videotaped punching, kneeing and body-slamming the 14-year-old boy in his final hours Jan. 5.

An initial autopsy of Martin performed by Bay County Medical Examiner Charles Siebert -- done at the direction of the sheriff who ran the camp -- said the teen died of natural causes from complications of sickle-cell trait, a blood disorder.

A second autopsy -- performed at the direction of Bush, who also appointed Ober to the case -- found Martin died not from the apparent beating or sickle-cell trait, but due to asphyxiation, probably because of the ammonia capsules the guards shoved in his face to revive him after he collapsed during forced exercise.

Attorneys for the guards say their clients did nothing wrong and that Siebert's initial autopsy clears them.

But following the May release of the second autopsy by Tampa Medical Examiner Vernard Adams, the state Medical Examiner's Commission, at the request of Attorney General Charlie Crist, found a number of technical flaws with other autopsies performed by Siebert. He has appealed their ruling, saying the review itself was flawed and too nitpicking.

Crump said Siebert's appeal ``adds insult to injury.''

Crump said Martin's parents are watching as ``everybody's going along fine. And every day they're dealing with this pain and agony knowing their son was killed and tortured the last 30 minutes of his life. And not one person has been held accountable after 10 months.''

Democrat U.S. Rep. Jim Davis of Tampa, running against the Republican Crist for governor, issued a statment pledging his support in the case.