RE: https://flipboard.com/@latimes/california-2ijlpkgrz/-/a-gRIwMU3LRieBh9ZQ9KpfSg%3Aa%3A460011909-%2F0
A fed’l judge…declined to allow testimony that the #PalisadesFire defendant had at 1 point burned a Bible & threatened to burn down his sister’s house, while warning the defense attorney “to tighten up your questioning.”
U.S. Dist. Judge Anne Hwang sd Jonathan Rinderknecht’s prior acts were not “direct evidence of the charges in the case,” but…was concerned that the defense’s cross examination of a fed’l agent left impression that he’d never expressed interest in deliberately lighting fires.




