@nypost: The high-powered lawyers for the out-of-control BMW driver accused of killing four Pepperdine University students are now urging a California judge to toss his murder case – arguing the 23-year-old was “grossly overcharged.” Fraser Bohm’s defense attorney, Jacqueline Sparanga, filed a 55-page motion on Sept. 30, challenging details from an April hearing and pushing to dismiss the four murder counts leveled against her client, according to court documents obtained by The Post. Bohm was slapped with murder and vehicular manslaughter charges for fatally mowing down Niamh Rolston, 20, Peyton Stewart, 21, Asha Weir, 21, and Deslyn Williams, 21, while doing over 100 mph in Malibu on Oct. 17, 2023. The motion, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claims that prosecutors are lacking legally sufficient evidence to back the second-degree murder charges. The filing also blasts the prosecution for a “muddled presentation” that their theory of “implied malice” is “unsupported by fact and by law.” Prosecutors said the Malibu resident was allegedly speeding 104 mph on a notoriously dangerous 45 mph stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway when he lost control of his luxury car and slammed into three parked cars, which then collided into the four Alpha Phi Sorority sisters walking nearby. The victims, seniors at the liberal arts college, all died at the scene. 📸: Frederick M. Brown for NY Post; Obtained by NY Post

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