DOOLEY, J.
¶ 1. What are the chances? This case poses the question of when that familiar rhetorical question is also a valid legal inference. Defendant was convicted of two counts of arson after four unexplained fires occurred at his rented house within an eight-week period. The trial court itself relied upon — and instructed the jury that it might rely upon — the fact that rare events like fires do not normally happen together in order to infer...
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