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that the guilty verdicts should be overturned because the commonwealth failed to prove that the Halloween night fire was of incendiary origin.

He noted that a fire is presumed to be of natural causes unless shown otherwise. Although the commonwealth attempted to rule out all natural causes, he said, no evidence was presented on what did start the fire, forcing the jury to conjecture.

Commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner responded that arson can be

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