00:00I'm in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, where this morning a judge declared a mistrial in
00:07the trial of Jonathan Rindernick, the man accused of starting the Lachman fire, which eventually turned into the Palisades fire.
00:14We found out that the jury could not come to a decision, that they were absolutely deadlocked.
00:20The count was 10 for not guilty, 2 for guilty.
00:25We heard from a juror after the proceedings.
00:29It was hard.
00:31We all were very respectful with each other, and obviously we didn't get to talk about the case until we
00:37got to deliberate, and once we went into deliberations, I guess it was just, didn't realize how passionate certain people
00:43felt.
00:43I thought, personally, I was not guilty, and I felt like I was going to be singled out and having
00:50to stand my ground and state my story,
00:52so I was kind of, like, a little relieved that I was on the more majority side instead of being
00:58that person who wouldn't budge, because I did say I wouldn't budge,
01:02but at the same time, I was also open to, like, can we see more? Can we do this? Can
01:06we do that?
01:07But it just, we couldn't, there was, we couldn't come to an agreement.
01:12What led you to the not guilty conclusion?
01:14Um, there's just not enough proof.
01:18It was, just happened so late in time, and I just felt like,
01:24A lot of holes.
01:25A lot of holes, yeah. Yeah, a lot of holes.
01:28Why did the two people that were holding out say that he did it?
01:34Um, I don't want to, like, completely, like, quote it, because I, I really, I didn't realize how passionate I
01:40was going to get, and angry, I'll say, um, about it.
01:44So, I think it was more of, like, the substantial evidence and her, um, common sense that she believed in
01:57her heart that, like, that was enough, so she wouldn't budge.
