A Southern California socialite was found guilty Friday of murder and other charges in the hit-and-run deaths of two young brothers in a crosswalk more than three years ago.
Authorities said Rebecca Grossman, wife of a prominent Los Angeles burn doctor, fatally struck Mark Iskander, 11, and brother Jacob, 8, while speeding behind a car driven by then-lover Scott Erickson, a former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher.
The jury found Grossman guilty on all counts: Two felony counts each of second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter, and one felony count of hit-and-run driving resulting in death. She faces 34 years to life in prison.
And it took THREE YEARS for such a simple case?
“Socialite” = rich person
Money makes court take more time.
It’s a case where a pedestrian was killed by a motorist in the US. It’s lucky they even brought a case, much less got a conviction.
I’d ask for evidence you have to back up the implicit claim that it’s unlikely that someone would recklessly kill a person with a car and actually get charged for, but I know I would just receive downvotes and no actual evidence. This is lemmy, after all, and you’re shitting on America. That’s the only important thing.
She and he can afford very good lawyers, and the state had to make the case watertight against her without damaging their upcoming case against him.
Yes, we know tgere’s a reason for it. Maybe a justice system that needs a perfect case BEFORE holding rich people accountable… is not a good system.
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man they sentencing innocent poor people left and right out here
Yep, and often the wrong one.
That is a pathetic stupid false dichotomy. Why is it either a “justice” system that cannot hold the rich accountable, OR a system that murders innocents?
You are just making excuses for them. Stop it.
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You are replying to a question about how it took so long, not that it didn’t happen.
Again, stop playing in to the false dichotomy. It’s pathetic.
What do you suggest, then?
Handing power to adults and not immature children who happen to have gotten old. That’d be a real fucking stellar start. Then let’s stop having Congressman be rich dipshits whos wallstreet portfolios out do the best wallstreet investors by tens of percentages.
Imagine typing this out and accusing other people of not acting like adults.
Imagine thinking an immature insult is a valid comeback. You fucking goons are pathetic. Have fun watching your freedoms and life slip away, because you wanted to be cool instead of right. Fucking loser.