Brian Laundrie’s parents ask court to dismiss lawsuit filed by Gabby Petito’s family

Of their lawsuit, Petito’s dad and mom alleged the Laundries knew that their son killed Petito and have been working to assist him flee the nation. Their lawsuit alleges Laundrie instructed his dad and mom about killing Petito round August 28 and that the Laundries refused to reply to Petito’s household or regulation enforcement once they inquired whether or not the 22-year-old lady was alive.

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“Christopher Laundrie and Roberta Laundrie knew of the psychological struggling and anguish of Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, and knew that they may alleviate, at the least partly, such psychological struggling and anguish by disclosing what they knew in regards to the well-being and the placement of the stays of Gabrielle Petito, but they repeatedly refused to take action,” the lawsuit says.

The movement to dismiss filed this week says the Laundries had “elementary constitutional rights to silence,” including that the household had a “normal constitutional proper to not communicate on any subject and a extra particular constitutional proper to not communicate within the face of a prison investigation.”

In an announcement despatched to CNN, Laundrie household lawyer Steven Bertolino referred to as the Petitos’ lawsuit “baseless and frivolous.”

“The Laundries have exercised their constitutional proper to chorus from talking and have relied on counsel to talk for them. This isn’t solely widespread apply in our civilized group however it embodies the train of elementary rights below america and Florida Constitutions,” Bertolino mentioned, including he was assured the go well with might be dismissed.

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CNN has reached out to an lawyer for Petito’s household for remark.

Petito, whose disappearance captured America’s consideration final summer time, was first reported lacking by her household in September after she had launched into a cross-country journey with Laundrie, who was her fiance.

Laundrie returned to the couple’s Florida residence, the place his dad and mom additionally lived, by himself in early September, left once more roughly two weeks later and disappeared. Days into the seek for Laundrie in a Florida reserve, authorities in Teton County, Wyoming, found Petito’s stays. A coroner later dominated she died by strangulation.

In late October, Laundrie’s stays have been discovered within the space of the Florida reserve. A medical expert dominated he died by suicide. Close by, authorities discovered a pocket book by which they mentioned Laundrie claimed duty for Petito’s dying.

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