Grossman’s new team of attorneys says there are “at least five reasons” she is entitled to have the case heard by another jury.
Rebecca Grossman, convicted in the deaths of two young brothers struck by her vehicle in Westlake Village in 2020, is the co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and the former publisher of Westlake Magazine. Grossman’s new team of attorneys had asked Superior Court Judge Joseph Brandolino to grant Grossman a new trial on the pair of murder charges, contending that there are “at least five reasons” she is entitled to have the case heard by another jury.
Prosecutors said the boys were crossing the street with their family in a marked crosswalk when they were hit by Grossman’s white Mercedes-Benz SUV and that she continued driving and eventually stopped about a quarter-mile away from the scene when her vehicle’s engine stopped running. Deputy District Attorney Ryan Gould told jurors in his closing argument that debris from the crash matched Grossman’s vehicle and that there was “not a shred” of evidence that Erickson struck the children.
The defense’s other contentions in the new trial motion included a claim that the judge erred by allowing jurors to hear about a 2013 speeding ticket Grossman received from a California Highway Patrol officer who testified that she told him that she hoped he never needed the services of the Grossman Burn Center.
The prosecutors noted that evidence presented during the trial indicated that Grossman “accelerated from 73 mph to speeds of 81 mph in a 45 mph zone just two seconds before the collision” and that she “drove with her accelerator pedal ‘floored,’ at essentially 100%, immediately preceding the collision” and struck the boys while traveling at 73 mph — the equivalent force of dropping her SUV on the boys from the height of a 12-story building.
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