LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Los Angeles jury is set to decide whether a 30-year-old former Uber driver purportedly driven by resentment of the rich and powerful is guilty of starting a brushfire in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2025, that a week later morphed into the the most destructive firestorm in the city’s history.
Federal prosecutors and an attorney for Jonathan Rinderknecht made their closing arguments Tuesday afternoon after two weeks of testimony by U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigators, arson experts, firefighters and local residents.
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