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An attorney for Rebecca Grossman offered a preview of her defense, disputing prosecutors’ allegations of her speed during the fatal 2020 crash and calling the pedestrian crossing a known danger.
Austin Lee Edwards said he checked into a mental health hospital in 2016. Further inquiry might have kept him from becoming an officer, a police official said.
A background investigator failed to check a would-be trooper's mental health history, allowing him to be hired for the Virginia State Police the year before he sexually extorted and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl and killed three members of her family in California, officials said.
Police officials in Virginia said the hiring of Austin Lee Edwards, despite his 2016 involuntary committal to a psychiatric facility, was "the direct result of human error."
A background investigator erroneously failed to check a would-be trooper's mental health history, allowing him to be hired for the Virginia State Police the year before he sexually extorted and kidnapped a 15-year-old girl and killed three members of her family in California, officials said.