“But criminal trials for criminal culpability are not based on whether parents make the right decisions.” “I will concede that these parents made tremendously bad decisions,” Smith said.
“It was not foreseeable from the drawings on that homework that he was going to later carry out the premeditated murders of those students,” Lehman said.Ĭo-counsel Shannon Smith had a similar message, saying it was “nowhere on their radar.”
#CRUMBLY PARENTS CHARGED TRIAL#
The Crumbleys have been ordered to trial in suburban Detroit, though the case was suspended in November when the Michigan Supreme Court called a timeout and told the appeals court to take a look at the charges.ĭefense attorney Mariell Lehman said the school’s concern on the day of the shooting was that Ethan might harm himself, not others, and should not go home to an empty house. “It should be reserved for an egregious set of circumstances, an extreme set of facts.” “Charging the parents of a shooter is rare and, frankly, it should be,” said Joseph Shada, an assistant prosecutor in Oakland County.
DETROIT (AP) - Prosecutors on Tuesday defended charges against the parents of a teenager who killed four students at a Michigan school in 2021, telling an appeals court that extreme drawings and the boy’s fascination with guns should have been a wake-up call on the day of the shootings.Ī three-judge panel heard arguments in a groundbreaking case that could send James and Jennifer Crumbley to prison if they’re eventually convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the acts of Ethan Crumbley at Oxford High School.Įthan, 16, has pleaded guilty to terrorism and murder and could be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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