Good morning, it’s Wednesday, June 24, and it’ll be hot (again) today.
1. Did a 29-year-old really start the Palisades fire?
Closing arguments ended yesterday in the federal trial against Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of starting a blaze that later exploded into the Palisades fire.
If you’re like me, you probably haven’t followed the play-by-play. Luckily, my colleague Matt Hamilton is one of the best legal affairs reporters in California — and he’s been sitting in on the trial.
Yesterday, he published a riveting account of the absurd hike that Rinderknecht took with federal agents as he slowly began to realize that he was under investigation. Today, I’ve asked Matt to lay out the case for us.
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