In 2021, a then 15-year-old Oxford, Michigan student named Ethan Crumbley, shot and killed four students and injured seven others. In a groundbreaking case, both of Ethan’s parents, Jennifer and James Crumbley, have been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. When is it appropriate to hold parents criminally responsible for the acts of their children? And might this case impact the crisis in school shootings? University of Michigan law professor Ekow Yankah joins The Excerpt to discuss the remarkable nature of this trial and the significance it could have on future litigation.

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