A judge let Bohm’s roadside answers in.

A Miranda ruling decides what a jury may hear. It does not decide whether the State proved a killing. On Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2026, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson denied Fraser Bohm’s bid to keep out what he told deputies after the October 2023 Pacific Coast Highway crash that killed four Pepperdine students. The court said he was detained, not in Miranda custody, and that the answers were voluntary. Detention is not an arrest. Admissibility is not guilt. Bohm has pleaded not guilty to four counts of second-degree murder and four of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.

The named dead are Niamh Rolston, 20, Asha Weir, 21, Peyton Stewart, 21, and Deslyn Williams, 21. Those names stay in the file whether the statements come in or stay out. Rubinson reset the jury trial to Dec. 1 after the defense asked for time on a late State theory about a nitrous-oxide canister in the car. The judge has said prosecutors may talk possession and distraction. He has also said they may not suggest inhalation to the jury. A theory about a tank is still a theory.

As of Sept. 17, 2026, there is no verdict. Implied-malice murder in a crash case still has to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. The next public event is the December panel, unless the court moves it again. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.