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Mother's conviction offers new tactic in mass shooting cases

By Tim Arango
New York Times·
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This week’s guilty verdict against the mother of a US teenager who murdered four students in 2021 in Michigan’s deadliest school shooting is likely to ripple across the country’s legal landscape as prosecutors find themselves weighing a new way to seek justice in mass shootings.

But, legal experts say, don’t expect a rush of similar cases.

“I have heard many people say they think a guilty verdict in this case will open the floodgates to these kinds of prosecutions going

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