Allegheny County prosecutors to retry man convicted of setting deadly 1995 Valentine's Day fire
The firefighters went to the home shortly before midnight and became separated from other crews when an interior stairwell collapsed, killing them.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge
The district attorney's office appealed Williams' decision to the
That meant the district attorney's office was left with two options: retry Brown or drop the matter and potentially allow him to go free.
"We're very relieved and very grateful. It means he's going to have a chance, after all these years, to prove his innocence," Brown's lawyer,
"We're also very sensitive to the families of the firefighters who lost their lives, but we represent an innocent man who has spent all of his adult life in the jail for a crime he did not commit."
Brown's new trial is expected to begin before the end of the year.
Evidence presented at Brown's trial revealed that his mother,
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