The owner and former owner of 236 East 178th Street in the Bronx were convicted of criminally negligent homicide and reckless endangerment last year, after illegal partitions in an apartment forced two firefighters to escape a fire by jumping to their deaths from the fourth floor. But a State Supreme Court judge has overturned that conviction on the grounds that the prosecutors didn't prove the owners knew what was up with the apartment cubby holes. A jury had already acquitted the tenants who were accused of installing the partitions in the first place, a puzzler for legal eagles everywhere. [NYT]
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