The nine man, three woman jury at Van Nuys Superior Court was sent out by Judge Joseph Brandolino Thursday morning to deliberate evidence presented at the six-week long murder trial of Rebecca Grossman.
Prosecutors say Grossman was racing her boyfriend Scott Erickson at "freeway speeds," in a residential area which has a speed limit of 45mph.
Grossman and Erickson met at a restaurant in Westlake Village for happy hour and were driving separately back to Grossman's home in Westlake Village to eat tacos and watch the Presidential debate on the night of the September 29, 2020 accident which left 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother Jacob dead.
Prosecutors say she acted with implied malice in intentionally engaging in an act which she knew would be a "natural or probable cause of danger to human life."
Rebecca Grossman's defense team maintained throughout the trial that she was traveling in her white Mercedes SUV at 52mph, and that Erickson, who was driving a black Mercedes SUV, is responsible for killing the young boys as they used a marked crosswalk on Triunfo Canyon Road along with their mother Nancy and youngest brother Zachary, who survived the incident.
The defense claims that Mark's body "vaulted" from Erickson's car to Grossman's vehicle, something which prosecution experts claim is "mathematically and scientifically impossible," given the height of Erickson's black Mercedes SUV and the height of the child.
The high profile case has taken years to come to trial, and has taken six weeks at Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys.
Grossman is a co-founder of the Grossman Burns Foundation and former publisher of Westlake magazine. She is free on a $2 million bond.
Grossman is charged with two counts of second degree murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and hit and run causing death. She denies the charges.
