LOS ANGELES—Arson and wildland fire experts in the federal trial accusing a 29-year-old Uber driver of starting a blaze that would lead, days later, to the deadly Palisades Fire, on Monday and Tuesday told a jury that the government’s case was corrupted by bias, shoddy investigative work, and a lack of forensic evidence establishing arson as the cause of the fire.
Testifying for the defense, Edward Nordskog, an arson investigator and retired L.A. County sheriff’s detective, said he reviewed more than 50,000 pieces of evidence in the case and came to the conclusion that none point to arson….