Philanthropist Gets 15 Years to Life in Hit-and-Run Murder of 2 Boys

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad how she was sending letters to the mom of the boys she killed. She sounds completely self-absorbed. Zero self awareness. Zero empathy or compassion.

She actually told the mom she was in more pain than her. Psycho

I think you misread that.

"Turning to Nancy Iskander, the boys’ mother, Ms. Grossman said: “My pain is a fraction of your pain,” the paper reported."

[Anonymous]

Reminded me of the AU student who was killed in a hit and run in 1999. The drunk driver told witnesses he thought he hit a "trash bag" and that was why he didn't stop. Forensics found blood and hair on the car windshield. I don't know how much time he ended up serving. I think he was sentenced to 20 months - 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good. At least she didn't get out of jail free because she's rich.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/rebecca-grossman-hit-run-sentenced.html

A judge on Monday sentenced a California philanthropist to 15 years to life in prison for murdering two children in a hit-and-run collision in a crosswalk while she was driving a Mercedes sport utility vehicle at more than 80 miles an hour, prosecutors said.

The woman, Rebecca Grossman, 60, of Hidden Hills, Calif., west of Los Angeles, was convicted in February of two counts of murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death, prosecutors said.

Evidence presented at Ms. Grossman’s trial indicated that she had accelerated to 81 miles per hour from 73 m.p.h. just two seconds before she hit the two children, Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother, Jacob, 8, in a 45-m.p.h. zone in Westlake Village, Calif., on the evening of Sept. 29, 2020, Los Angeles County prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

Ms. Grossman also drank alcohol and took Valium before driving “to the point that she was impaired,” the memorandum said.

After Ms. Grossman struck the boys, she did not return to the scene or call 911, prosecutors wrote. She later claimed that Mr. Erickson had hit the children, even though there was “not a shred of evidence to prove this to be true,” prosecutors wrote.

She should have gotten life with no possibility of parole,!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A man would've gotten life.

Not always. Brian Schwartz guy from Columbia, Maryland went to a happy hour where his colleagues said they watched him down 7+ drinks. Then he got into his Mercedes and mowed down a 17 year old and left him dead in the road. He eventually turned himself in a few days later, but didn't admit to drinking so they couldn't get him on the DWI. He served one week in jail.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/?p=1590045

After less than a week in jail and six weeks in a work-release program, the Columbia man who killed 17-year-old Esai Lopez of Gaithersburg in a hit-and-run collision last year has been transferred to home confinement to serve the rest of his one-year sentence.
The March 28 transfer of Brian Schwartz, 43, from a county work-release program to home confinement has left the Lopez family irate with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office for steering them toward a plea deal that could allow such an outcome.
Schwartz, who struck Lopez as he crossed Redland Road near Muncaster Mill Road with friends July 31, had been at a happy hour before the collision. He and three colleagues consumed 27 alcoholic drinks, according to police records. Schwartz did not admit to drinking, but his colleagues said the entire group was drinking, according to police records.

After hitting Lopez with his BMW, Schwartz fled the scene and replaced the car’s windshield before turning himself in to police three days later, according to police.

Maryland. That’s the difference. After college I worked in criminal justice in Maryland for a few years. It was such a joke I switched careers. I had one guy on probation for his seventh DUI. I’m shocked crime isn’t worse there.

Another difference was also that Schwartz is a rich white man who ran over a poor black kid-the DA totally mismanaged this case. The "philanthropist" ran over two fairly well off white kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember they the young female lawyer who killed a teenager walking along Rt 7 at night after a law firm happy hour? She left the scene and reported that she hit a deer after the news came out about a hit and run. Then no one would cooperate with the police investigation. She immediately got pregnant. Then I don’t know what happened. I think the firm was Cooley in Reston.

She was convicted, fired from her law firm and went go jail when her baby was 1.

[Anonymous]

Remember the affluenza kid Ethan Couch? He killed 4 and paralyzed one more in a drunk driving crash, but he only got 10 years probation. no jail time. Sometimes wealthy kids get sympathetic judges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remember the affluenza kid Ethan Couch? He killed 4 and paralyzed one more in a drunk driving crash, but he only got 10 years probation. no jail time. Sometimes wealthy kids get sympathetic judges.

Where was that? I bet not Florida or Texas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember the affluenza kid Ethan Couch? He killed 4 and paralyzed one more in a drunk driving crash, but he only got 10 years probation. no jail time. Sometimes wealthy kids get sympathetic judges.

Where was that? I bet not Florida or Texas.

I take that back...it was Texas!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminded me of the AU student who was killed in a hit and run in 1999. The drunk driver told witnesses he thought he hit a "trash bag" and that was why he didn't stop. Forensics found blood and hair on the car windshield. I don't know how much time he ended up serving. I think he was sentenced to 20 months - 5 years.

Oh, that AU student who was in the drive lane on Nebraska Ave at night using rollerblades? Without reflective wear or a bike light?

The driver should have stayed at the scene of course. But, if it wasn’t him it would’ve been the next driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reminded me of the AU student who was killed in a hit and run in 1999. The drunk driver told witnesses he thought he hit a "trash bag" and that was why he didn't stop. Forensics found blood and hair on the car windshield. I don't know how much time he ended up serving. I think he was sentenced to 20 months - 5 years.

Oh, that AU student who was in the drive lane on Nebraska Ave at night using rollerblades? Without reflective wear or a bike light?

The driver should have stayed at the scene of course. But, if it wasn’t him it would’ve been the next driver.

+1. This is totally off topic but some pedestrians are morons. The other night some teen was walking down a road with a 45mph speed limit (not in the grass or shoulder) in the same direction as cars at dusk wearing gray and black. I obviously saw her in time, but wow what an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad how she was sending letters to the mom of the boys she killed. She sounds completely self-absorbed. Zero self awareness. Zero empathy or compassion.

She actually told the mom she was in more pain than her. Psycho

I think you misread that.

"Turning to Nancy Iskander, the boys’ mother, Ms. Grossman said: “My pain is a fraction of your pain,” the paper reported."

11/5 is a fraction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Remember the affluenza kid Ethan Couch? He killed 4 and paralyzed one more in a drunk driving crash, but he only got 10 years probation. no jail time. Sometimes wealthy kids get sympathetic judges.

Where was that? I bet not Florida or Texas.

I take that back...it was Texas!

Any chance you'll take this opportunity to reflect on your blind partisanship?

No, didn't think so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reminded me of the AU student who was killed in a hit and run in 1999. The drunk driver told witnesses he thought he hit a "trash bag" and that was why he didn't stop. Forensics found blood and hair on the car windshield. I don't know how much time he ended up serving. I think he was sentenced to 20 months - 5 years.

Oh, that AU student who was in the drive lane on Nebraska Ave at night using rollerblades? Without reflective wear or a bike light?

The driver should have stayed at the scene of course. But, if it wasn’t him it would’ve been the next driver.

+1. This is totally off topic but some pedestrians are morons. The other night some teen was walking down a road with a 45mph speed limit (not in the grass or shoulder) in the same direction as cars at dusk wearing gray and black. I obviously saw her in time, but wow what an idiot.

That is an idiot mayor who built a car road where a pedestrian sidewalk should be.

Humans come first

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good. At least she didn't get out of jail free because she's rich.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/rebecca-grossman-hit-run-sentenced.html

A judge on Monday sentenced a California philanthropist to 15 years to life in prison for murdering two children in a hit-and-run collision in a crosswalk while she was driving a Mercedes sport utility vehicle at more than 80 miles an hour, prosecutors said.

The woman, Rebecca Grossman, 60, of Hidden Hills, Calif., west of Los Angeles, was convicted in February of two counts of murder, two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death, prosecutors said.

Evidence presented at Ms. Grossman’s trial indicated that she had accelerated to 81 miles per hour from 73 m.p.h. just two seconds before she hit the two children, Mark Iskander, 11, and his brother, Jacob, 8, in a 45-m.p.h. zone in Westlake Village, Calif., on the evening of Sept. 29, 2020, Los Angeles County prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

Ms. Grossman also drank alcohol and took Valium before driving “to the point that she was impaired,” the memorandum said.

After Ms. Grossman struck the boys, she did not return to the scene or call 911, prosecutors wrote. She later claimed that Mr. Erickson had hit the children, even though there was “not a shred of evidence to prove this to be true,” prosecutors wrote.

She should have gotten life with no possibility of parole,!

The appropriate sentence would have been 34 years: 15 for each child killed plus 4 for hit-and-run. By running the 3 sentences concurrently, the judge gave her a much lighter sentence than she deserved.

[Anonymous]

I wish cars were treated more like the deadly weapons that they are in the eyes of the law. Killing someone while choosing to operate a vehicle under the influence should be equivalent to killing someone with a gun.