Mason v. Superior Court

*777Opinion

BLEASE, Acting P. J.

Petitioner, Byron Craig Mason, seeks review of the denial of a Penal Code section 9951 motion to set aside a grand jury indictment for the arson of forestland that caused great bodily injury. (§451; see id.., subd. (a).) The indictment arises out of a forest and grass fire ignited by sparks emitted from the explosion of a large firework. The firework, an illegal aerial device designed to shoot flares into the air, was thrown by petitioner into a large swimming hole, surrounded by cliffs, forest, and grassland, on a hot July day in 2012. It floated briefly, then…