Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Oakland Ghost Ship defendants: one not guilty, one not convicted
Families of the people who died in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire three years ago are not happy with Thursday's verdicts. Two men were on trial. One defendant was found not guilty. The other trial had a hung jury.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readFamilies of the people who died in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire three years ago are not happy with Thursday's verdicts. Two men were on trial. One defendant was found not guilty. The other trial had a hung jury. Thirty-six people died in that fire, and the two defendants had faced involuntary manslaughter.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Line Editor, Press Play
Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir
Associate producer
Matthias Gafni
winner of Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 coverage of the Ghost Ship fire for the East Bay Times; currently a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle