洛杉矶，11月2日——联邦法院对一名男子的重审原定于周一开始进行陪审团选拔。检方称，该男子蓄意纵火，引发了一场成为洛杉矶历史上最致命、破坏力最强的山火之一的大火。
LOS ANGELES, Nov 2 - Jury selection was due to begin on Monday in the federal retrial of a man prosecutors say deliberately set a blaze that grew into one of the deadliest, most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history.
30岁的乔纳森·林德克内希特（Jonathan Rinderknecht）原定于周一返回洛杉矶市中心的美国地区法院，面对之前对他提出的指控的精简版本。他最初的为期三周的审判于6月下旬因陪审团无法达成一致意见而结束。
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, whose initial three-week trial ended in a hung jury in late June, was slated to return to US District Court in downtown Los Angeles to face a scaled-down version of the charges previously leveled against him.
林德克内希特是一名拥有美法双重国籍的前优步司机，检方将他描绘成一个郁郁寡欢的独居者，对社会（尤其是富人）怀有深深的愤怒，并将这种愤怒转化为一纵火行为。
Rinderknecht, a former Uber driver of dual US-French citizenship, was cast by prosecutors as a dejected loner who harbored deep anger at society, particularly the wealthy, and channeled his rage into an act of arson.
他被指控于2025年1月1日“恶意”点燃了一场灌木丛火灾，该火灾很快被扑灭，但在密集灌木的根部闷烧，数天后在强风的吹拂下重新燃烧，演变成一场大火，将滨海富人区太平洋帕利塞德夷为平地。
He is accused of "maliciously" starting a brush fire on January 1, 2025, that was quickly extinguished but smoldered in the roots of dense scrub before re-igniting days later, whipped by fierce winds into a conflagration that laid waste to the seaside enclave of Pacific Palisades.
辩护律师坚称林德克内希特被错误指控。他们断言，元旦那天山顶上的火灾是由节日烟花引发的，而非他们的当事人，并且，一周后造成12人死亡、数千所房屋被毁的大规模帕利塞德大火是另一场由他人纵火引起的火灾。
Defense attorneys have maintained that Rinderknecht was wrongly accused. They asserted the hilltop New Year's Day blaze was triggered by holiday fireworks, not their client, and that the massive Palisades inferno that killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes a week later was a separate fire set by someone else.
关于这场灾难的两种相互对立的说法，导致陪审团在6月份以10比2倾向于宣告被告无罪，且无法就三项指控中的任何一项达成一致裁决。
The opposing narratives of the disaster left jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favor of acquittal and unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the three charges in June.
安妮·黄法官宣布审判无效，检方随后根据一份大陪审团起诉书对被告进行重审，该起诉书撤销了林德克内希特面临的原始指控之一，并修改了其余两项联邦纵火罪名。
Judge Anne Hwang declared a mistrial, and prosecutors moved to retry the defendant under a grand jury indictment that dropped one of the original charges Rinderknecht faced and modified the two remaining federal arson counts.
近7000所房屋及其他建筑被付之一炬，财产损失估计达1500亿美元，其中部分财产属于接受联邦财政援助或涉及州际贸易的组织。
Nearly 7,000 homes and other structures went up in flames, with property losses estimated at $150 billion, some of that belonging to organizations receiving federal financial assistance or involved in interstate commerce.
同步灾难 帕利塞兹大火与另一场几乎同时爆发的灾难性风驱山火几乎同时发生，这场山火发生在大约30英里以东的伊顿峡谷，造成19人死亡，肆虐洛杉矶郊区阿尔塔迪纳。火灾调查人员后来认定，来自输电塔的火花引燃了伊顿大火。
SIMULTANEOUS DISASTERS The Palisades blaze coincided with another catastrophic wind-driven wildfire that erupted almost simultaneously in Eaton Canyon, about 30 miles to the east, killing 19 people and ravaging the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena. Fire investigators later concluded that sparks from an electrical transmission tower ignited the Eaton fire.
林德克内赫特是与这两场1月7日大火中任何一场有关的唯一被刑事指控的人，这两场大火合计成为洛杉矶县历史上最致命的山火灾难，超过了1933年格里菲斯公园大火中丧生的29条人命。
Rinderknecht was the only person criminally charged in connection with either of the two January 7 blazes, which together rank as the deadliest wildfire calamity ever in Los Angeles County, surpassing the 29 lives lost in the Griffith Park fire of 1933.
林德克内赫特曾认罪不罪，在首次审判中拒绝为自己辩护作证。如果根据最新起诉书被判有罪，他将面临最高40年监禁。原起诉书规定的最高刑期为45年。自2025年10月在佛罗里达州被捕以来，他一直被羁押。
Rinderknecht, who pleaded not guilty, declined to testify in his own defense during his first trial. He would face up to 40 years in prison if found guilty as charged under the latest indictment. The original indictment carried a maximum prison term of 45 years. He has remained in custody since his arrest in Florida in October 2025.
辩护律师史蒂夫·哈尼在首次审判中断言，检察官缺乏将林德克内赫特与纵火联系起来的物证，也没有任何显示其有纵火意图的记录。
Defense attorney Steve Haney asserted during the first trial that prosecutors lacked physical evidence linking Rinderknecht to arson or any records showing an intent to commit arson.
在关于此案的法庭文件和公开声明中，哈尼还暗示，他的当事人正在成为洛杉矶消防部门失职的替罪羊。
In court documents and public statements about the case, Haney also suggested that his client was being scapegoated for failures of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
林德克内赫特本人曾是太平洋帕利塞兹的居民，他在去年3月提交的一份法庭声明中宣称自己无辜，否认曾故意纵火。
A onetime Pacific Palisades resident himself, Rinderknecht professed his innocence in a court declaration filed last March, denying he had willfully started any fire.
他承认曾从一座为观看新年烟花而攀登的山丘上目睹1月1日大火的爆发，这场大火最初被称为拉赫曼大火。但林德克内赫特表示，他立即拨打紧急电话911报告火情，并一直留在现场直到消防员到达，并主动提出帮助他们。
He acknowledged witnessing the outbreak of the January 1 fire, originally called the Lachman fire, from the vantage point of a hill he had climbed to watch New Year's fireworks. But Rinderknecht said he immediately called emergency 911 to report the blaze and remained at the scene until firefighters arrived and offered to help them.
检方指控，林德克内赫特在拨打911求助电话时，询问手机上的AI应用程序ChatGPT，是否有人可能因“你的香烟”而引发火灾被认定负有责任，ChatGPT回答“可以”。
Prosecutors have alleged that while placing his 911 call, Rinderknecht asked the AI app ChatGPT on his phone whether someone could be found at fault for lighting a fire "because of your cigarettes," to which ChatGPT replied, "Yes."
检方还表示，监控录像和林德克内赫特手机的位置数据显示，1月1日圣莫尼卡山脉国家休闲区一条小径附近发生的火灾开始时，附近只有他一个人。
Prosecutors also said security camera footage and location data from Rinderknecht's cellphone show he was the only person in the vicinity of the January 1 blaze when it began near a trail in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.