Trial set in September for sailor accused in USS Bonhomme Richard arson

Prosecutors have alleged that Mays was"disgruntled" with the Navy after dropping out of the SEAL training program.

Mays has denied any role in the fire, though other sailors have testified to seeing him enter the ship's"Lower V" area -- where investigators say the fire originated -- just prior to the blaze breaking out. Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, the commander of the San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet, ordered last month that Mays should go to trial on the charges, though Mays' defense attorneys say another officer recommended against the case proceeding to trial.

That officer, Capt. Angela Tang, heard three days of evidence during an Article 32 hearing last year in a Naval Base San Diego courtroom. During the hearing, prosecutors alleged the blaze was sparked by someone touching an open flame to an ignitable liquid applied to tri-wall containers in the Lower V. Defense expert witnesses challenged findings that the blaze was an incendiary -- or deliberate -- fire, and said further analysis of the scene should have been completed before investigators ruled out possible accidental causes of the blaze.

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