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| Subject: It's bullshit! Bronx Landlords Guilty in 2 Firefighters’ Deaths Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:35 pm | |
| The owner and the former owner of a Bronx apartment building where two firefighters died after jumping from a window to escape a blaze were found guilty Wednesday of criminally negligent homicide.
The jury also convicted the owners of reckless endangerment, but acquitted them of manslaughter, the most serious charge they faced.
Prosecutors argued that the firefighters died in the 2005 blaze because illegal partitions in two of the apartments left them disoriented and forced them to jump to their deaths.
But last week, a separate jury that heard the same case acquitted the tenants who were accused of installing the partitions to carve up their apartments into rooms they sublet. The tenants faced the same charges as the owners. The jury that convicted the owners on Wednesday was unaware of the earlier verdict.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/nyregion/19bronx.html?src=SkimNY
Fuck you! Whose property is it anyway?! |
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RR Phantom
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| Subject: Re: It's bullshit! Bronx Landlords Guilty in 2 Firefighters’ Deaths Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:27 am | |
| Did the landlords even know about the partitions? |
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CovOps
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| Subject: Re: It's bullshit! Bronx Landlords Guilty in 2 Firefighters’ Deaths Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:38 am | |
| Probably... |
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