A judge in Van Nuys is scheduled Friday to hear the prosecution’s request to revoke Rebecca Grossman’s privilege to make telephone calls while behind bars following her conviction on murder and other counts for a crash that killed two young boys in Westlake Village.
In a court filing this week, deputy district attorneys Ryan Gould and Jamie Castro contend that Grossman has used the calls to “engage in wholly improper conduct or potentially illegal conduct” since shortly after being taken into custody after the jury’s verdict Feb. 23.
Grossman, the 60-year-old co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation, was found guilty of two counts each of second-degree murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and one count of hit-and-run resulting in death involving the Sept. 29, 2020, crash that left 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother, Jacob, dead.
In their motion, the prosecutors wrote that Grossman’s recorded phone calls include “admissions to violating the court protective order regarding the disclosure of evidence on the Internet and to the press” and also “document numerous potential criminal conspiracies such as requests to disclose more protected discovery, discussion of various attempts to interfere with witnesses and their testimony and attempts to influence (the judge) in regards to sentencing and motions for a new trial.”
The prosecutors cited a series of phone calls in which Grossman spoke to her husband, Peter, and her daughter, Alexis, between Feb. 23 and Feb. 25. Those included a Feb. 23 call in which she told her daughter that she wanted her to “unblock the videos” and “put everything out” and another the following day in which asked her husband if a person she identified as “Tom” could call the judge and “ask him to please let us have a new trial,” according to the prosecution’s filing.
In a call the day after the verdict, Grossman told her daughter, “These were the worst jurors. I knew…
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