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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Tarm

Highland Park shooting suspect’s father asks to dismiss charges for ‘innocent conduct’

AP

A father has asked a judge to dismiss his case in which authorities say he helped his son obtain a gun license three years before the younger man fatally shot seven people at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.

Illinois prosecutors charged Robert Crimo Jr. under an unconstitutionally vague law, his lawyers argued at a Monday hearing in Waukegan, north of Highland Park where the shooting occurred. If Lake County Judge George Strickland allows the case to proceed, Mr Crimo Jr's bench trial would start on 6 November.

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