LOS ANGELES (CN) — The man federal prosecutors accuse of starting a brush fire in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2025, that six days later erupted into the devastating Palisades Fire went on trial for a second time Wednesday after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict the first time around.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, is charged with two counts of arson. The government argues the Palisades Fire, which destroyed thousands of homes in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was a so-called holdover from the fire they say Rinderknecht ignited on a hillside near where he had previously lived with a former romantic partner.
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