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FILE-In this file photo taken Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, a memorial is made on the steps of the burned-out house where 9 people died in 2005 in Cleveland. Antun Lewis, the Ohio man convicted of setting the house fire that killed a woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover has asked a judge to throw out his conviction. Juries have twice convicted Antun Lewis on charges he set the 2005 fire in Cleveland. Lewis has contended repeatedly that he didn't set the fire and expressed condolences to the families. The 34-year-old Lewis is serving a 35-year prison sentence.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Ohio man convicted in fire that killed 9 wants case tossed

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Antun Lewis. Lewis, twice convicted in the 2005 arson deaths of a Cleveland woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover, has asked for a third trial. Attorneys for 30-year-old Lewis asked the trial judge Thursday, Feb.6, 2014 to throw out the second conviction as unfair because of saturation pretrial publicity. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)

Defense seeks 3rd trial in 9 arson deaths in Ohio

By THOMAS J. SHEERAN - Associated Press