VAN NUYS, Calif. (KABC) -- A judge has denied a motion to dismiss the murder charges against the man involved in a deadly Malibu crash that killed four Pepperdine University students.

Fraser Michael Bohm appeared in court Monday morning.

A new team of attorneys representing Bohm asked Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson to find that there was insufficient evidence presented to support the murder charges at a hearing in April in which another judge found there was enough evidence to allow the case to proceed to trial.

Bohm -- who was 22 at the time of the crash and is now 24 -- is charged with four counts each of murder and vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in the Oct. 17, 2023, nighttime crash that killed Niamh Rolston, 20; Peyton Stewart, 21; Asha Weir,

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