Peter Grossman replied: “Rebecca, you know, we wrote this. I don’t want you to say anything on the phone right now.”

She asks, “Why? It’s the truth.”

As the jury deliberated last month, the judge issued a warning to Grossman about violating a court order by disclosing the video or making public any evidence that he had sealed and jurors had not seen. Prosecutors had asked Grossman be remanded to jail for her actions at the time.

In another jailhouse conversation, Grossman spoke to her husband about a board member of the Grossman Burn Center, where he is the medical director. That doctor’s patient Susan Manners was one of three witnesses who testified at trial she had seen Grossman’s white Mercedes SUV strike one of the boys in the crosswalk. On the phone call, Grossman lamented her husband’s colleague had not influenced Manners’ testimony.

She also separately told her husband to have a man she identifies as Tom call the judge to see about getting a new trial.

In a Feb. 24 conversation with her daughter, Grossman says, “If we can get witnesses to come forward and say they were told to say things, this can get us a new trial.” She encouraged her daughter to find and talk to a witness who was never called by the defense and who, according to their opening statements, saw a black car — not a white one — strike the boys.

“We have to get a real story out there about everything behind us and everything that wasn’t done and all the things that were hidden from the jury and how the media influenced the entire trial and how they were releasing all this stuff to the media, just to make me look like a monster and that we know that the jurors were influenced by it,” Grossman said.

Her 19-year-old daughter replied “I’m going to do everything for you, Mom. Everything. And so is Dad.”

Grossman told her daughter: “I was so in shock to have all 12 jurors (convict). These were the worst jurors. I knew they were bad jurors. That whole jury selection thing didn’t work for us at all. They weren’t on my side from the beginning. I just knew it.”

She continued: “Every single witness has a different story. How could there not (have) been reasonable doubt?”

The following day, Feb. 25, in a recorded conversation with her husband, Grossman brought up her then-boyfriend, Scott Erickson, whose Black Mercedes SUV she had followed through the crosswalk on Triunfo Canyon Road when she hit the brothers.

“You should call Scott Erickson and tell him to get on a video and that he needs to confess,” she said, echoing her defense team’s theme at trial.

Calling his wife a sacrificial lamb, Peter Grossman said: “I know he needs to confess, but right now, I can’t even talk about the case. But that guy needs to (know) you’re in jail for him, and it drives me crazy.”

“Tell him to a video and confess,” Grossman told her husband. “I have a family."

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