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Palisades arson retrial: Judge mulls handling of LAFD misstep evidence

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A federal judge indicated Thursday that jurors in the upcoming retrial of a man accused of an arson that sparked the Palisades fire will not be allowed to consider whether Los Angeles firefighters adequately extinguished the blaze that prosecutors say later reignited and spread, devastating the community. U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang tentatively granted prosecutors’…