Eric A. Johnson | DEV-College of Law | Illinois https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:29:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 USA Today quotes Johnson on shooting accountability cases https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/news/usa-today-quotes-johnson-on-shooting-accountability-cases/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:45:00 +0000 https://newstest.collegeoflaw.web.illinois.edu/?p=13581 “I think the cases are a step in the right direction,” Professor Eric Johnson told USA Today about a new tactic from prosecutors in the battle against gun violence. Three separate cases have recently charged adults, such as parents and school principals, for failing to prevent adolescents from committing crimes involving firearms. This new legal approach has been successful in Michigan and Illinois and Johnson believes it could make gunowners think twice about their liability.

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]]> Johnson quoted in NY Times and USA Today on trial of Highland Park shooter’s father https://www2-t.law.illinois.edu/news/johnson-quoted-in-ny-times-and-usa-today-on-trial-of-highland-park-shooters-father/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:30:00 +0000 https://newstest.collegeoflaw.web.illinois.edu/?p=13679 The father of the shooter at the Highland Park 4th of July parade pleaded guilty to seven counts of reckless conduct earlier in November, signaling that it is possible to hold family members accountable in similar cases. Professor Eric Johnson, a criminal law expert, spoke to the New York Times and USA Today about the case. Referring to the charges against the father in the case, Johnson said, “It’s a relatively novel — though I think defensible — theory of prosecution.”

While prosecutors are not changing the law or what it means to act recklessly, they are identifying new situations where they might apply it, he said.

More at nytimes.com and usatoday.com. 

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