Attorneys representing plaintiffs in the Center City Philadelphia building collapse trial told jurors they should not apportion most of the civil liability against the two men who have been jailed in connection with the fatal collapse.

Instead, the parties the jury should find most at fault are the Salvation Army and the owner of the building that caused the deadly collapse—defendants with “tables full of lawyers turning common sense on its head,” Cohen, Placitella & Roth attorney Harry Roth told the jury Tuesday.

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