In the second week of the Justin Halstenberg arson trial proper, the prosecution’s presentation of testimony and evidence began a transition from an emphasis on establishing the defendant had ignited the Line Fire in Highland on September 5, 2024 to an emphasis on the extent of that conflagration’s destructiveness and cost as well as demonstrating he had a previous history of setting, or attempting to set, wildland fires.

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Halstenberg’s defense team, meanwhile, sought to ameliorate the blows sustained by their client, while continuing to lay the foundation of a central theme of their attempt at exculpation, an illustration of the limitation of investigators’ gathering and measure of physical evidence in a way that was prejudiciously calculated to show the suspect’s guilt in such a way that it invalidated the scientific analysis upon which the prosecution is relying.

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