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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge Friday refused to dismiss manslaughter charges against an 88-year-old man whose car barreled through a farmers' market in Santa Monica, killing 10 people and injuring 63.
Lawyers for George Russell Weller had argued that he was not grossly negligent, but simply panicked when he stepped on the gas instead of the brake, traveling nearly 1,000 feet through the pedestrian market at up to 60 mph.
He "could do nothing to stop that car," attorney Jim Bianco argued.
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