Jennifer Crumbley appeals to higher court: I'm no threat. Release me on bond

(Detroit Free Press) Three days after being denied a new trial, Jennifer Crumbley is asking the Michigan Court of Appeals for help with something a lower court judge repeatedly refused to budge on — bond.

The convicted mother of the Oxford High School shooter wants the state's appellate court to release her on bond as she appeals her historic conviction, maintaining she has met both legal requirements needed to grant her request: She is not a threat to anyone, a new court filing states, and her appeal "raises a substantial question of law or fact."

Specifically, Crumbley's appellate lawyer argues, Crumbley's appeal raises a novel and controversial issue that the higher court needs to take up: Should she have been prosecuted in the first place under the legal theory that she had a duty to protect the victims at school?

Attorney Michael Dezsi argues, among other things, that no such legal duty exists for the general public — much like a regular citizen can't be prosecuted for failing to stop a store robbery or a suicide in front of a train — and that Crumbley's case never should have gone to trial. For that reason and others, he says, she should be granted bond pending the outcome of her appeal. .................(more)

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