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The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

89. Jennifer Crumbley and Parental Responsibility

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

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True Crime

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Crumbley was convicted of 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter after her son used a firearm she purchased to commit a school shooting. What does it mean and should it have happened?

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0:00.0

I'm Alice and I'm Alice and I'm Brett and this is the prosecutor's legal proof. Yes. Welcome back to the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host Alice and I'm joined

0:37.4

as always by my healthful co-host Brett. I wish I could say the same for you Alice. I hate to be the helpful one in the duo.

0:45.8

It's true. If it sounds like our voices are different it's because I think my voice is a whole

0:50.8

octave lower because I'm a little bit sick but you know what

0:54.4

before you hit that one-star review and say man they sound sick just think I

0:59.4

could literally be in bed instead of recording but we have a lot to talk about today because I was much too

1:06.1

sick to record yesterday when the verdict came down in the Jennifer Crumbly case, but I pulled

1:10.9

myself out of bed today because 24 hours later is better than never.

1:15.0

Those of you who've been watching the week-long trial of Michigan school shooter

1:20.0

Ethan Crumbly's mother Jennifer Jennifer Crumbly, were in for kind of bombshell news yesterday and a lot of people

1:28.0

have asked, is this a slippery slope? And that question is, her son took a gun and killed four students injured many others at his school.

1:37.0

And she as the mother was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

1:42.0

How far does that go in four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

1:42.8

How far does that go in holding parents accountable for the actions of their minor children?

1:48.2

And what does this mean going forward for other kinds of charges that could be brought against school shooters, parents, or really

1:55.8

any parents of any minors who commit really terrible acts such as this one.

2:00.9

No, it's a question we got asked a lot and I think it's a great question and I can understand

2:05.8

why people are both curious and to some extent concerned about it.

2:09.7

I know some people are very afraid that this is a slippery slope.

2:14.6

For those of you who did not follow the case,

2:16.3

I think a lot of people follow this one pretty closely.

2:18.4

As Alice said, Jennifer Crumbly

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