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When Greg Brown entered a plea 27 years after a fire on Pittsburgh’s Bricelyn Street killed three city firefighters, the government saw it as a victory. Though the unusual Alford plea made earlier this year allows Brown to continue to proclaim his innocence and carries no additional sentence, he took
Paula Reed Ward Tribune-Review A memorial to Pittsburgh firefighters Marc Kolenda, Patricia Conroy and Capt. Thomas Brooks sits at the base of a flagpole outside of Engine 17 in Homewood, shown here in December 2015. TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A federal appellate court said Tuesday that prosecutors can retry a man whose conviction in the 1995 deaths of three firefighters in the East Hills was overturned. In a 19-page opinion, the three judge-panel from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found th...