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    LA County DA removes Rebecca Grossman's prosecutors, outraging parents of murdered boys

    by Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times May 13, 2024 5 minutes
    Rebecca Grossman, second from right, heads into Van Nuys Courthouse with her husband, Dr.

    LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has taken the highly unusual step of removing the prosecutors who convicted Rebecca Grossman of double murder, outraging the parents of the two young boys she killed in a Westlake Village crosswalk.

    District Attorney George Gascón’s office replaced prosecutors Jamie Castro, Ryan Gould and their supervisor, Garrett Dameron, after claiming a conflict of interest in the Grossman case. The trio reported during trial to Assistant District Attorney Diana Teran, who was recently charged with 11 felonies in connection with the illegal use of confidential sheriff’s records. Teran is represented by James Spertus, Grossman’s new attorney.

    The district attorney’s top bosses told Dameron the prosecutors were being removed so anyone who worked with Teran would be walled off from the case going forward. But according to an email by Dameron to his superiors, the move was taken only after

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