Jurors found Forrest Clark not guilty of three counts of arson, but convicted him of threatening a neighbor.
Nearly five years after fast-moving flames tore through more than 20,000 wild land acres in Orange and Riverside counties, an Orange County Superior Court jury acquitted the man accused of igniting the massive blaze.deliberated for a little more than a day before finding Forrest Clark, 56, not guilty of three felony counts of arson.
With no physical evidence directly tying Clark to the start of the fire, threats Clark apparently aimed at his closest canyon neighbor – along with seemingly self-incriminating comments a raving Clark made to fire investigators – were the focus of the prosecution case. Hours later, Deputy District Attorney Dominic Bello told jurors, the flames that would soon overtake Holy Jim Canyon ignited in the vicinity of Romero’s cabin.
Amid hot, dry and windy conditions, the Holy fire ignited on Aug. 6 within Holy Jim Canyon, a rural Orange County community comprised of several dozen cabins nestled in the remote expanse of the Cleveland National Forest.
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