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DUI trial marked by allegations of Tallahassee police misconduct ends in guilty verdict

Calvin riley sr. was convicted monday of dui after a two-day trial at the leon county courthouse..

A DUI trial that garnered international attention over allegations that Tallahassee police planted evidence ended with a guilty verdict against the man who was behind the wheel.

Calvin Riley Sr. was convicted Monday on a DUI charge after a two-day trial at the Leon County Courthouse. At the behest of the defense, County Judge Jason Jones opted to drop a charge of driving with a suspended license before the jury got the case.

The guilty verdict, which jurors reached after deliberating less than an hour, marked a major victory for the State Attorney's Office and the Tallahassee Police Department, including the officers who were on scene during Riley’s arrest and Chief Lawrence Revell, who had publicly denied that any misconduct occurred.

It was a swift rebuke of claims made by the Public Defender's Office and Our Tallahassee, a blog run by local political operative Max Herrle that posted a story about the case and edited and narrated police body-cam footage from the arrest. The video alone garnered millions of social-media views last week on the eve of Riley's trial.

State Attorney Jack Campbell praised the prosecution, which was led by Florida State University law student and certified legal intern Emma Hirschy, and the jury, which had to convene for a second day Monday after delays on Friday.

“The totally unfounded and sensational accusations against this officer — clearly the jury saw through the allegation that she had planted anything,” Campbell told the Tallahassee Democrat. “The defendant’s the one who decided to drink. The defendant’s the one who decided to drive. And we’re going to continue to do our business even when people want to hurl allegations at the officer and the criminal justice system in general.”

Public Defender Jessica Yeary gave a prepared statement to reporters after the trial but declined to take questions. She pledged to continue to support Riley and his family “through every next step of this process.”

“While we are disappointed and believe in Mr. Riley and his case, we respect the jury’s verdict,” she said. “I am incredibly proud of our lawyers and our team and the hard work they put in, bringing to light and litigating issues of police misconduct and calling it out when we see it. Without their work, our communities would suffer at the hands of bad police conduct and over-prosecution.”

Officers: Riley had slurred speech, bloodshot eyes

Riley, a 56-year-old barber, was arrested May 7, 2023, after TPD Officer Kiersten Oliver spotted his white Mercedes with its headlights off speeding down South Monroe Street. Officers testified that Riley had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes, fumbled unsuccessfully for his ID and admitted he had just left a bar more than five miles away after having a couple of beers.

During a search of the vehicle, after Riley was placed in handcuffs and put in the back of a squad car, Oliver searched his vehicle and found a small unopened bottle of vodka in the passenger's side. She opened the bottle, breaking the seal in the process, and dumped it out before tossing it back in the passenger seat ― all in view of her body-worn camera.

Another officer, Margaret Mueth, whom Oliver had called to help at the scene, ended up making the arrest and writing the report, which noted both the opened bottle and a cup in the center console that officers said smelled like alcohol.

Mueth took the stand Monday, testifying as Oliver had earlier that Riley was already under arrest on DUI and driving with a suspended license charges when the search happened and the bottle was found.

“Did this bottle, open or not, come into your decision to arrest the defendant for driving under the influence?” Hirschy asked. “No,” Mueth replied.

In her closing argument, Assistant Public Defender Desiree Goodfellow told jurors that the officers who testified “are not credible” and that Oliver lied “from the second she pulled Mr. Riley over until the second she got off that witness stand.” She accused Oliver of using the vodka bottle against Riley – even though the officer was the one who opened it.

“These officers are taking an oath to swear to tell the truth and then these officers are lying,” Goodfellow told jurors. “They did it right there in front of you.”

Hirschy, in her closing, said Oliver never went to other officers to announce that she’d found an open bottle of liquor – which would be key evidence in a DUI case.

“What this boils down to is simple miscommunication,” Hirschy said. “They made a mistake. They both told us that it was a mistake. Every one of us is human, including these two officers. I’m not saying that it was OK to make that mistake, but they made a mistake, they’re honest and they owned up to it.”

Riley sentenced to jail time, probation after DUI conviction

After the verdict, Jones sentenced Riley to six months probation, including a condition that he serve 10 days at the Leon County Detention Facility, with credit for one day served. He ordered his vehicle impounded for 10 days and his driver’s license suspended for six months.

Riley, who opted not to testify but gave a short statement to the court just before sentencing, said he accepted responsibility “for getting upset” and letting his emotions take over during his arrest. He was initially cooperative during the traffic stop but started shouting and calling officers “liars” after Oliver said she smelled marijuana, which he denied using.

“I was only going through this emotional stuff because of the past I’ve been through with law enforcement and what I started going through that night with these officers,” he said. “It was just a repeat of what I experienced growing up here.”

City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow, whose campaigns have gotten help from Herrle’s political committees, posted a link to Riley’s GoFundMe page in a social media post. He said he plans to bring up issues about the arrest during this Wednesday’s City Commission meeting.

“The evidence presented at trial included all the hallmarks that drive distrust in law enforcement: phantom marijuana smells, fabricated evidence and incomplete body cam footage,” he wrote. “Thankful for those that stand up to injustice.”

TPD did not respond Monday to text messages from the Democrat.

Campbell criticized Our Tallahassee’s account of the arrest and said “the timing and the way this was done is frustrating.”

He added: “We need to recognize that the truth has value and that integrity is still important and not to believe everything that’s put on social media.”

Contact Jeff Burlew at [email protected] or 850-599-2180.

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Parents of Michigan School Shooter Sentenced to 10 to 15 Years in Prison

Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son killed four people, each faced up to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter convictions.

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By Jacey Fortin and Anna Betts

Jennifer and James Crumbley, who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter for failing to prevent their teenage son from killing four fellow students in the deadliest school shooting in Michigan’s history, were each sentenced on Tuesday to 10 to 15 years in prison.

Their separate jury trials ended in guilty verdicts in February and March , making them the first parents in the country to be convicted over the deaths caused by their child in a mass shooting.

Involuntary manslaughter charges carry a penalty in Michigan of up to 15 years in prison, and prosecutors asked in sentencing memos filed to the court last week that the Crumbleys each serve at least 10 years. Both have been in jail for more than two years while awaiting trial and will receive credit for time served.

“Parents are not expected to be psychic,” Judge Cheryl Matthews of the Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac, Mich., said before issuing the sentence. “But these convictions are not about poor parenting. These convictions confirm repeated acts or lack of acts that could have halted an oncoming runaway train — repeatedly ignoring things that would make a reasonable person feel the hair on the back of her neck stand up.”

Before the hearing, prosecutors said that Ms. Crumbley, 46, was asking to be sentenced to house arrest on her defense lawyer’s property, rather than serving prison time. And Mr. Crumbley, 47, said that he had been wrongly convicted and his sentence should amount to the time he had already served in prison, adding that he felt “absolutely horrible” about what had happened.

On Tuesday, each of them spoke in the hearing before the judge pronounced sentence.

“I stand today not to ask for your forgiveness, as I know it may be beyond reach, but to express my sincerest apologies for the pain that has been caused,” Ms. Crumbley said in court, addressing the relatives of students who were killed.

Mr. Crumbley also apologized. “I cannot express how much I wish that I had known what was going on with him or what was going to happen, because I absolutely would have done a lot of things differently,” he said.

Relatives of some of the victims also spoke during the hearing, describing the overwhelming effects the shooting had on their lives.

“The ripple effects of both James’s and Jennifer’s failures to act have devastated us all,” said Jill Soave, the mother of Justin Shilling, 17, who was killed in the shooting at Oxford High School on Nov. 30, 2021. “This tragedy was completely preventable. If only they had done something, your honor, anything, to shift the course events on Nov. 30, then our four angels would be here today.”

Steve St. Juliana, whose daughter, Hana, 14, was killed, said that the Crumbleys continued to fail to take responsibility for what had happened.

“They chose to stay quiet,” he said. “They chose to ignore the warning signs. And now, as we’ve heard through all of the objections, they continue to choose to blame everyone but themselves.”

The Crumbleys’ son, Ethan, was 15 when he carried out the shooting that killed Justin and Hana, as well as Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Tate Myre, 16. Seven others were injured. Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to 24 charges, including first-degree murder, and was sentenced last year to life in prison without parole . He is still eligible to appeal that decision. His parents may appeal, too.

In the trials of both parents, prosecutors focused in part on their failure to remove their son from school after he made a violent drawing on the morning of the shooting. It included a written plea for help.

They also emphasized Ethan’s access to a handgun that Mr. Crumbley had purchased. And they said that Ms. Crumbley had missed signs that her son was struggling with his mental health, adding that she took him to a gun range just days before the shooting.

Defense lawyers for both parents said they could not have foreseen the unspeakable violence their son would commit.

Ms. Crumbley grew up in Clarkston, a Detroit suburb about 20 minutes from Oxford, her lawyer said during a hearing after the couple’s arrest in 2021 . Before her arrest, she had worked as a marketing director, her lawyer said.

Mr. Crumbley’s job history included work at a handful of small software and technology companies.

The couple once lived in Florida but returned to Michigan several years ago, their lawyers said. They bought their home near downtown Oxford in 2015.

The trials of Jennifer and James Crumbley became a lightning rod for issues of parental responsibility at a time of high-profile gun violence by minors. In recent months, parents in other states have pleaded guilty to charges of reckless conduct or neglect after their children injured or killed others with guns.

But the manslaughter charges against the Crumbleys were unique, and legal experts said their trials could serve as a playbook for other prosecutors who seek to hold parents accountable in the future.

Ekow Yankah, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, said the effect of the ruling on Tuesday might be felt beyond the state.

“This is going to be precedent, most obviously in Michigan and its home jurisdiction, but prosecutors all over the country will see this as a new and viable form of liability,” Mr. Yankah said. “I think we should not underestimate the precedential power of this case, even as we recognize that the facts were quite extraordinary.”

For Matthew Schneider, a former United States attorney in Michigan, what makes this case so different from many others is that most criminal sentences are related to the actions of a defendant, rather than being “about inactions, and how the inactions of a person result in a criminal sentence.”

The sentencing is “very much about making an example of the defendants,” Mr. Schneider said. “This is a shot across the bow to all parents, to all people who have firearms in their house, to keep them locked up, if they could be in the hands of the wrong people.”

Jacey Fortin covers a wide range of subjects for the National desk of The Times, including extreme weather, court cases and state politics all across the country. More about Jacey Fortin

Anna Betts reports on national events, including politics, education, and natural or man-made disasters, among other things. More about Anna Betts

Leon County Booking Report: Dec. 1, 2021

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Below is a PDF file containing all bookings at the Leon County Detention Facility from Nov. 20, 2021.

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DISCLAIMER: The arrest records that are available through this website are public information. Any indication of an arrest does not mean the individual identified has been convicted of a crime. All persons arrested are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of Michigan shooter, sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison

Jennifer and James Crumbley, the first parents of a mass school shooter in the U.S. to be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the attack, were sentenced Tuesday in a Michigan courtroom to 10 to 15 years in prison.

The sentence came after the court heard statements from the family members of Tate Myre, 16, Hana St. Juliana, 14, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Justin Shilling, 17 . The students were killed when the Crumbleys' son, Ethan, went on a shooting rampage at Oxford High School in Michigan on Nov. 30, 2021.

"You created all of this," Nicole Beausoleil, Baldwin's mother, said through tears. "You failed as parents. The punishment that you face will never be enough."

Beausoleil recalled the final hours of her daughter's life, comparing them with the Crumbleys' actions before and during the shooting. "When you texted 'Ethan don't do it,' I was texting Madisyn: 'I love you. Please call Mom,'" she said.

Reina St. Juliana, the sister of Hana, brought many to tears as she spoke of how her sister would never see her prom, graduation or birthdays.

"I never got to say goodbye," Reina said. "Hana was only 14 ... she took her last breath in a school she hadn't even been in for three months."

Jill Soave, mother of Justin Shilling, asked the judge to hand down the maximum sentence possible to both parents. "The ripple effects of both James' and Jennifer's failures to act have devastated us all," she said. "This tragedy was completely preventable."

Judge Cheryl Matthews addressed both parents before handing down the sentence, "Mr. Crumbley, it's clear to this court that because of you, there was unfettered access to a gun or guns, as well as ammunition in your home.

"Mrs. Crumbley, you glorified the use and possession of these weapons," she added.

Both parents will credited for time already spent in jail.

Matthews also barred the pair or their "agents" from any contact with the families of the four students. She said she would also rule on the parents' rights to contact their son.

Jennifer and James Crumbley also addressed the court ahead of their sentence.

"The dragging this has had on my heart and soul cannot be expressed in words, just as I know this is not going to ease the pain and suffering of the victims and their families," Jennifer Crumbley said.

Jennifer Crumbley used her statement to clarify her trial testimony when she said she would not have done anything differently leading up to the shooting. It was "completely misunderstood," she said Tuesday, adding that her son had seemed "so normal" and that she could not have foreseen the attack.

She said prosecutors tried to paint her and her husband as parents "so horrible, only a school or mass shooter could be bred from."

"We were good parents. We were the average family. We weren't perfect, but we loved our son and each other tremendously," Jennifer Crumbley said.

James Crumbley apologized to the families during his statement.

"I cannot express how much I wish I had known what was going on with him and what was going to happen, because I absolutely would have done a lot of things differently," he said.

Prosecutors asked that each parent be given 10 to 15 years in prison after separate juries found them each guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year. Their son, 15 at the time of the shooting, is serving a life sentence for the murders.

The parents have shown no remorse for their actions, prosecutors told Matthews in a sentencing memo . They told the juries that the Crumbleys bought their son the gun he used and ignored troubling signs about his mental health.

Legal experts have said the case, which drew national attention, could influence how society views parents' culpability when their children access guns and cause harm with them. Whether the outcome encourages prosecutors to bring charges against parents going forward remains to be seen.

Why were the Crumbleys culpable in their son's crimes?

The Crumbleys' son went on a rampage in the halls of Oxford High School hours after his parents were called to the school by counselors to discuss concerns over disturbing drawings he had done on a math assignment. Prosecutors said the parents didn't tell school officials their son had access to guns in the home and left him at school that day.

James Crumbley purchased the gun used in the shooting, and in a post on social media Jennifer Crumbley said it was a Christmas present for the boy. The prosecution said the parents could have prevented the shooting if they had taken ordinary care to secure the gun and taken action when it was clear their son was having severe mental health struggles.

The prosecution cited messages the teen sent months before the shooting to his mother that said he saw a "demon" in their house and that clothes were flying around. He also texted a friend that he had "paranoia" and was hearing voices. In a journal, he wrote: "I have zero HELP for my mental problems and it's causing me to shoot up" the school.

The Crumbleys also tried to flee law enforcement when it became clear they would face charges, prosecutors said.

Defense attorneys said the parents never foresaw their son's actions. Jennifer Crumbley portrayed herself as an attentive mother when she took the stand in her own defense, and James Crumbley's lawyer said that the gun didn't really belong to the son, that the father properly secured the gun and that he didn't allow his son to use it unsupervised. In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network,  the jury foreman in James Crumbley's trial said  storage of the gun was the key testimony that drove him to convict.

Parents asked for house arrest, time served

James Crumbley has asked to be sentenced to time already served since his arrest in December 2021, according to the prosecutors' sentencing memo. Jennifer Crumbley hoped to serve out a sentence on house arrest while living in her lawyer's guest house.

Prosecutors rejected the requests in the memo to the judge, saying neither had shown remorse for their roles in the deaths of the four children. James Crumbley also was accused of threatening Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald in a jail phone conversation, Keast said, showing his "chilling lack of remorse."

"Such a proposed sentence is a slap in the face to the severity of tragedy caused by (Jennifer Crumbley's) gross negligence, the victims and their families," Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Marc Keast wrote of the mother's request in a sentencing memo.

Each involuntary manslaughter count carries up to 15 years in prison, though typically such sentences are handed down concurrently, not consecutively. The judge also has the discretion to go above or below the state advisory guidelines, which recommended a sentencing range of 43 to 86 months − or a maximum of about seven years. The state guideline is advisory, based on post-conviction interviews and facts of the case.