Nationally, the biggest criminal law story this week was the sentencing of James and Jennifer Crumbley. They’re the parents of Ethan Crumbley, who was a student at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021 when he murdered four classmates and injured seven other people in a mass shooting. James and Jennifer Crumbley were each convicted, in separate trials, of four counts of involuntary manslaughter as a result of their son’s acts. The prosecution contended that they ignored a host of warning signs about Ethan’s mental state and ultimately enabled the shooting by purchasing him a handgun. This week, they were sentenced at a joint sentencing hearing to 10 to 15 years in prison. The Associated Press has the story here. Read on for more news. Vietnam imposes the death penalty for economic fraud. The BBC reports here that “a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday for looting one of the country's largest banks over a period of 11 years.” The condemned is Truong My Lan. She was tried alongside 85 other defendants in a case that required “10 state prosecutors and around 200 lawyers” and for which “2,700 people were summoned to testify.” She was accused of misappropriating $44 billion, and has been ordered to repay $27 billion. The background sounds like a movie plot. The defendant started as a humble “market stall vendor, selling cosmetics with her mother,” and rose to be a wealthy developer and hotelier who allegedly had more than $4 billion in cash [...]
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