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Rinderknecht was indicted last year on three federal arson charges for allegedly sparking the smaller Lachman Fire in the Palisades Highlands — just six days before theSteve Haney, Rinderknecht’s attorney, says depositions recently made public showing firefighters admitting to leaving parts of the Lachman burn area smoldering undercut the prosecution’s narrative.
“The prosecutors didn’t know about these critical failures when they sought an indictment, but they do now,” Haney said, promising more details at a Thursday press conference. He blasted the criminal complaint as a “blatantly false narrative” and argued the new evidence calls into question “the very foundation of the charges.”3 hero Austin cops who stopped deadly shooting expected to be dragged before grand juryThe explosive testimony surfaced as part of a lawsuit filed against the City of Los Angeles and the State of California by“I could feel the heat coming off of it,” Pike testified. “There was like red-hot coals … still smoldering. I even heard crackling.” The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California declined to comment beyond saying: “We’ll see Mr. Rinderknecht in court.”Ayatollah Khamenei's oldest son elected as supreme leader to replace his dad: reportCharles Gasparino
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