A jury remains deadlocked in the trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of starting the blaze that turned into the deadly and destructive Palisades Fire in 2025. After announcing earlier on Thursday that they had reached a verdict, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they were deadlocked,
A jury remains deadlocked in the trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of starting the blaze that turned into the deadly and destructive Palisades Fire in 2025. After announcing earlier on Thursday that they had reached a verdict, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they were deadlocked, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. “The jury in the Jonathan Rinderknecht trial sent a subsequent note saying they are deadlocked. The trial continues,” DOJ wrote in a statement. The judge sent the jury home an hour later. They are expected to return to court on Friday at 9 a.m. Prosecutors argued that Rinderknecht maliciously started a fire near the Pacific Palisades community in Los Angeles in the early morning of Jan. 1, 2025. That fire developed into what became the Palisades Fire.
