FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, German architect Gerhard Becker appears at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles. Becker pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 in the death of a Los Angeles firefighter crushed in the collapse of a ceiling during a fire at a luxury home the architect designed and built in the Hollywood Hills. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)