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The mother of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley has asked to dodge jail time and serve her involuntary manslaughter sentence under house arrest in her lawyer's guest home.

Jennifer Crumbley is facing up to 15 years in jail after being convicted at a court in Michigan in a landmark legal case that found she ignored numerous warning signs that her son might carry out a school shooting. 

Her lawyer, Shannon Smith, has requested that Jennifer live in her guest house - which prosecutors say is an 'upgrade' on her current house - at her home in northern Oakland County, rather than serving her sentence behind bars. 

Oakland County Prosecutor Marc Keast said the request for the lenient living conditions is a 'slap in the face to the severity of tragedy caused by defendant's gross negligence.'

Instead, Keast has recommended 10-to-15-year jail sentences for both Jennifer and her husband, James, who has also been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

They are scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday, and like Jennifer, James is seeking to avoid prison and has asked for time served in lieu. 

Referring to James, Keast argued in his sentencing memo: 'Defendant’s shameless lack of remorse in asking for time served as an appropriate sentence is a slap in the face to the severity of tragedy caused by his gross negligence, to the victims and their families.'

He said: 'Beyond defendant’s gross negligence, his jail calls show a total lack of remorse, he blames everyone but himself, and he threatened the elected Prosecutor.

'(He) has shown a chilling lack of remorse for his culpability in this matter. He has blamed everyone but himself and considers himself a 'martyr.''

According to an interview with investigators seen by the Detroit Free Press asking for leniency, Jennifer said: 'I have been in jail for over 26 months and have been locked down 23 hours per day. 

'I am hopeful the Court will sentence me in a way that allows me to be released from jail for the balance of my sentence.'

Keast said: 'Consistent with her efforts to minimize her culpability directly after the shooting, defendant — now even after trial — continues to show a complete lack of remorse by minimizing any role she had in the matter.

'Demonstrating this fact, defendant thinks a proportionate sentence is to 'be placed on a tether with house arrest' at her attorney’s guest house — ostensibly an upgraded residence from (her former Oxford home) where she resided before her gross negligence that led to the Oxford High School shooting.'

The parents were convicted in separate trials after juries found they ignored numerous cries for help from their son and bought him a gun before he shot and killed four students in 2021. 

In evidence, they heard Ethan wrote in his diary: 'My parents won't listen to me about help or (a) therapist'.

In another entry he said: 'I have zero help for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up the f****** school'.

Prosecutors argued that Crumbley was so negligent as a parent that she was partly to blame when her son Ethan, then 15, killed four people and injured seven at Oxford High School in Pontiac in November 2021.

The jury heard that Crumbley was more interested in an extramarital affair, her horses and going for nights out on the town, than spending time with her son.

The 45-year-old and her husband James Crumbley, 47, bought the gun their son used in the shooting four days before the rampage, the jury heard. 

Prosecutors put forward the novel theory of extended parental liability, which the jury agreed with after 11 hours of deliberations. 

They failed to secure it properly and Crumbley even went to a shooting range with Ethan to practice a few days prior to the killing.

Following the shooting, a search of the teen's home found his room messy, with with paper targets from a shooting range on his wall. 

An empty bottle of whiskey was on a table beside his bed. At the time of the attack, he was six years under America's legal drinking age.  

The safe used to house his Sig Sauer handgun was empty on his parents' bed. 

There were two other guns in a separate safe that could be unlocked with the code 0-0-0.  

Two hours before the attack, Crumbley was called to Ethan's high school for a meeting where he wrote about 'blood everywhere' in a maths textbook.

During the trial, defence lawyer Shannon Smith said that the case was 'dangerous' to parents.

She asked the jury to find Crumbley not guilty 'for every parent doing the best they can, who

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