Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) Superior Court
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Jim Bianco was sitting in his Santa Monica office one Wednesday afternoon in July 2003 when the telephone rang. The caller introduced himself as the son-in-law of an 86-year-old Santa Monica man named Russell Weller.
A few hours earlier, Weller had stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake near one end of the city's popular farmers' market. When his car finally came to a stop, 10 people... (continued)