A defense motion to dismiss some of the charges against the man accused in a Pacific Coast Highway crash that killed four Pepperdine University students was denied Monday at a pre-trial hearing in the closely watched case.
Fraser Bohm was charged with murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in the 2023 crash in Malibu. The pre-trial hearing in a Van Nuys courtroom focused on a new defense motion to dismiss the four murder charges against Bohm.
In court Monday, defense attorney Alan Jackson described the April preliminary hearing, a proceeding that usually determines whether there’s enough evidence for a defendant to stand trial, as compromised and argued for dismissal of the most serious charges in the deadly high-speed crash…