re: Parents of Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbley will go to trial, judges rule

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ust to be clear, I am not attacking. I am interested in your opinion on the topic.

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Its all good but thanks for making that clear. Its an interesting topic and one that deserves its own post and discussion. I think gross negligence has to be demonstrated in court. From the article I linked

" Gross negligence is not a subjective charge, and a jury can’t convict the Crumbleys because it finds them abhorrent or insufficiently parental. To convict someone of manslaughter through gross negligence, a prosecutor in Michigan must prove that the defendant knew of a potentially dangerous situation, that they could have averted harm through ordinary care, and that the disastrous harm to others presented by the circumstances would have been apparent to an ordinary mind — what the attorneys call “foreseeability.”

The facts in this case as I understand them so far, to me demonstrate gross negligence manslaughter but I'm not on the jury so....