New delay in Palisades hearth arson trial – NBC Los Angeles

Prosecutors and protection attorneys have requested a federal choose in Los Angeles to postpone the beginning of the Palisades hearth arson trial till June.

The protection for Jonathan Rinderknecht says in new court docket filings it has roughly 5 terabytes of investigative materials supplied by the federal government to evaluate, examine, and analyze, and it wants extra time to organize.

The US Lawyer’s Workplace co-signed the request for the delay, referred to as a continuance in court docket filings.

Rinderknecht was initially scheduled to face trial in December, 2025 on 3 federal legal prices for allegedly igniting the a lot smaller Lachman hearth within the Pacific Palisades 6 days earlier than the Palisades hearth began.

His preliminary trial date was delayed till April 21, 2026, which attorneys have now requested to postpone till June 9, 2026, in accordance with the submitting.

Rinderknecht has pleaded not responsible and is being held in federal detention with out bail till trial.

Federal prosecutors say smoldering embers from the Lachman hearth reignited in excessive winds January 7 and triggered the Palisades hearth, however Rinderknecht has not been charged in direct reference to the Palisades hearth.

Earlier this month Rinderknecht’s protection lawyer Steven Haney withdrew a movement that requested the choose to suppress, or exclude, a lot of the proof obtained by a number of search warrants obtained early within the hearth investigation.

The movement argued that ATF brokers and different investigators lacked sufficient possible trigger to single-out Rinderknecht as a suspect when the search warrants had been issued.

As of early Wednesday US District Court docket Decide Anne Hwang had not dominated on the request for the delay.