I agree, I think Griffith and co. are going to have an uphill battle to get Ted home in his lifetime.
The prosecution does have a case, and with the presumption of guilt over innocence, I am unsure how the defense would argue that Ted did not know he might of killed those people. Simply saying "I did not mean for them to die" is not enough.
And one can argue that Emergency Services was incompetent, but I am not sure if that matters....I suspect the judges and jury may not see that the incompetence of the other players is relavent, because no one would be on trial if he had not pulled the stunt in the first place.
I am not even sure if it is true. I think the prosecution will protect the Emergency Services people and even gain sentiment for them. No doubt they will say that they had to use extreme caution and were slowed down in their rescue efforts due to a false report that there were knife-wielding intruders around. A false report that they will say originated with the defendant.