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A Florida judge rejected a prosecutor's impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of a nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility's air conditioning in 2017.

A Florida judge on Friday dismissed all nine manslaughter counts against a nursing home administrator accused of providing insufficient care.

A judge has acquitted Jorge Carballo, administrator of Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017.

A Florida judge has upheld his acquittal of a nursing home administrator who had been charged with the overheating deaths of nine patients after 2017’s Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s air conditioning. Circuit Judge John J. Murphy III spent Monday morning listening impassively as prosecutor Charles Morton made his case for reconsideration But after about an hour of deliberation upheld his Friday decision to acquit Jorge Carballo of manslaughter even before the three-week trial reached the jury. He said that a reconsideration would violate Carballo's rights against double jeopardy...