The Crumbley Case and Parental Liability
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Areas of Law: Civil, Criminal Law
Featured Speaker
Moderator
Presenters
- Robert A. Bianchi, Esq.
- Former Morris County Prosecutor and Certified Trial Attorney
The Bianchi Law Group, LLC, Parsippany - Robert B. Hille, Esq.
- Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, Roseland
On Feb. 6, a Michigan jury found Jennifer Crumbley guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in a case that experts say sets an important precedent of whether and how parents can be held criminally accountable. Her husband, James Crumbley, was found guilty of the same in March. Prosecutors argued that Ethan Crumbley’s life prior to the murders was full of “red flags” – among them that his parents were aware of his mental health struggles but refused to get him help and that they gifted him a gun just days before the shooting and did not properly store it. Does this verdict open the floodgates to liability for all parents whose children commit crimes? What about civil liability? Hear from practitioners, both criminal and civil, including noted trial attorney and “Law and Crime” on-air contributor Robert Hille and respected former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney and “Law and Crime” on-air contributor Robert Bianchi as they analyze the case and the legal issues, and talk about the impact of this decision on parental liability claims in New Jersey.