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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A civil suit for anything more than the insurance policy limits will be tough unless they can show the parents were negligent by letting their son drive, e.g. if they knew he drove drunk or had a suspended license and continued to let him drive.  I would like to see the parents suffer financially, especially given the lack of meaningful criminal penalties, but I don’t think it will happen.[/quote]

In a case like this, I think the parents are at real risk of that exact scenario. Supposedly the kid had a history of alcohol and drug abuse. If that is correct, the evidence was certainly more than the gossip of some friends. So possibly medical records, school records, other police encounters, etc. And if the parents had software on the car or on their phone showing where there kid was or how fast the car was going, that's all admissible.

Add in that Meade's parents might not be motivated by money, but a desire to obtain the justice that they didn't receive in the criminal process and you have a massive liability case because the [b]Meades will not want to settle[/b]. It's possible that they extract a settlement, but if they do it will be entirely on their terms if the liability is clear.[/quote]

I agree this is entirely possible. Based on his mom speaking out to local news, I have a feeling there isn’t a lot of motivation to take a sum of money and go away quietly. They didn’t get justice for their son, so I wouldn’t be surprised if civil court becomes an opportunity to air all the dirty laundry of the killer’s family. If they can get their names out there with all the ugly history of substance abuse at least the defendant won’t just be able to live out his life as if nothing happened. I would want to create a Google trail about him (I am assuming the press wouldn’t protect the name of a now-adult once the proceedings are civil vs. criminal? Or at the least the parents’ names wouldn’t be protected). [/quote]

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