Exclusive | Jonathan Rinderknecht's lighter will be key evidence in second Palisades Fire trial, lawyer says
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Thu, 22 October 2026
1 report- nypost.com22:56first to report
Mon, 2 November 2026
1 report- The Guardian World15:00
Case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, in Los Angeles comes four months after first trial ended with a hung jury A 30-year-old man accused of starting the deadly Palisades fire is being retried for arson this week, four months after his first trial ended with a hung jury. Federal prosecutors say Jonathan Rinderknecht, a former Uber driver, is responsible for the January 2025 wildfire, which killed 12 people and ravaged thousands of buildings in the Pacific Palisades. Continue reading...
Thu, 5 November 2026
1 report- pressdemocrat.com00:18
LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday again accused a man of using a lighter to deliberately set the blaze that became the devastating Palisades fire, while his attorney argued that investigators settled on their theory months before conducting tests to support it. The competing accounts opened the retrial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, after his first jury in June deadlocked 10 to 2 in ...