Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley, filed a motion on Monday hoping to overturn her 10-15 year prison sentence on four counts of involuntary manslaughter charges.
Recall that back in November 2021, Ethan opened fire at Oxford High School, killing four students: 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin, 16-year-old Tate Myre, 17-year-old Justin Shilling, and 14-year-old Hana St. Juliana.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Ethan’s parents, Jennifer and James Crumbley fled when they were indicted with involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the shooting. This prompted the US Marshall to release wanted posters on social media and offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to their arrest.
The verdict came on the second day of jury deliberations the February trial, making Crumbley the first parent to be held criminally responsible for a mass shooting committed by their child. The father, James Crumbley was found guilty in March.
Crumbley was sentenced on April 9th, 2024 to serve a 10-15 year prison sentence for her involvement in the shooting, notably for being the last one in possession of the firearm and ignoring mental health warning signs that school officials already pointed out to the parents.
In Jennifer’s appeal for a new trial or judgment of acquittal, she claims multiple legal errors occurred justifying her release.
Per Detroit News:
Michael Dezsi, an attorney for Jennifer Crumbley, outlined multiple reasons why the verdict against his client should be thrown out or she should be given a new trial, including ineffective counsel; agreements prosecutors made with two key witnesses from Oxford schools that weren’t shared with her attorney and raise questions about their credibility; and that she owed “no legal duty to the victims of her son’s acts.”
“These proceedings were tainted from top to bottom and were borne out of prosecutorial overreach attempting to criminalize Mrs. Crumbley’s noncriminal conduct,” Dezsi wrote in his filing. “Apart from the improper decision to charge, Mrs. Crumbley was denied a fair trial where the prosecution deliberately withheld from the defense key impeachment evidence and proceeded on Kafkaesque inconsistent legal theories that work a grave injustice on the law.”
Dezsi called the case a “sham prosecution grounded in prosecutorial overreach.”
“We are all here because of me. I am the one who led to why we’re all hear today. I do not diminish any ability to anyone who could have stopped me, of anyone at the school or parents. They did not know, and I did not tell them what I planned to do. So they’re not at fault for what I’ve done. I’m a really bad person.”
Now he’s asking for expert witnesses to be heard at a new trial to try a theory that his mom’s drinking during pregnancy caused Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and emotional immaturity.
It seems the Crumbley family is not having fun in prison.
Read Jennifer Crumbley’s full motion below:
Jennifer Crumbley motion to… by WXYZ-TV Channel 7 Detroit
