Judge upholds acquittal in 9 hurricane nursing home deaths


              Defense Attorney David Frankel, left, speaks to Judge John Murphy III at the Broward County Courthouse, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023,  in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as his client Jorge Carballo listens. The judge rejected a prosecutor's impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of the nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills' air conditioning in 2017. Murphy upheld his Friday decision to acquit Carballo of manslaughter. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
            
              Jorge Carballo listens to Judge John Murphy III at the Broward County Courthouse, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Broward County States Attorney's Office objected to the judge's acquittal of Carballo, the top administrator at a Hollywood nursing home where residents perished after Hurricane Irma in 2017. The motion was denied. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
            
              Jorge Carballo listens to Judge John Murphy III at the Broward County Courthouse Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The judge rejected a prosecutor's impassioned plea Monday, saying he would not reconsider his acquittal of the nursing home administrator in the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills' air conditioning in 2017. Murphy upheld his Friday decision to acquit Carballo of manslaughter. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
            
              Charles Morton, with the Broward County State's Attorney's Office presents his argument to Judge John Murphy III, back, at the Broward County Courthouse, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The state objected to the judge's acquittal of Jorge Carballo, the top administrator at a Hollywood nursing home where residents perished after Hurricane Irma in 2017. The motion was denied. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
            
              FILE - Jorge Carballo, one of the top administrators at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, looks on from the defense table during his Hollywood Hills nursing home manslaughter case at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Feb. 6, 2023. On Friday, Feb. 24, a judge acquitted Carballo who was accused of causing the overheating deaths of nine patients after Hurricane Irma in 2017, saying that his employees had provided care and prosecutors had not proven he should have known their lives were in danger. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)
Judge upholds acquittal in 9 hurricane nursing home deaths