Jurors have reached a verdict in the murder trial of Grossman Burn Foundation co-founder Rebecca Grossman, who is charged in a 2020 crash in Westlake Village that left two young brothers dead.
Court is scheduled to reconvene at 4 p.m. This story will be updated when the verdict is read.The nine-man, three-woman panel spent just under an hour listening again to portions of the testimony of four prosecution witnesses, including the victims' mother, two eyewitnesses and a former friend of ex-Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson, who was driving a black Mercedes-Benz SUV which the defense contends struck 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother, Jacob, first.
The judge rejected a subsequent effort by Clayton to return to the stand to clarify what he meant.Jurors were due back in court Friday afternoon in connection with another request made by the panel just before lunch.Grossman's lead attorney, Tony Buzbee, kicked off his closing argument Wednesday by asking jurors, "Where is Scott Erickson? Where is the guy?" in the first of repeated references to Erickson, whom the prosecution said was Rebecca Grossman's boyfriend at the time.
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