Daily Crime and Justice | True Crime, Trial Coverage, and Murder Cases15 Sep

The Prosecutors Who Just Won Asked Their Own Judge to Step Down, Celeste Rivas Hernandez's Parents File Suit, and No Jury in Largo

Judge London Kite has refused to step aside from Shanna Gardner's murder case after both prosecutors and Kirsten Bridegan — the widow of victim Jared Bridegan — filed motions asking her to disqualify herself. Kite ruled both legally insufficient without addressing the factual allegations. The dispute began when Gardner's defense sought Kirsten Bridegan's cellphone; Kite initially denied the request, then ordered her to surrender it after an ex parte meeting with Gardner's attorneys that neither prosecutors nor Bridegan's lawyers attended. When she refused, Kite initiated indirect criminal contempt proceedings during Mario Fernandez Saldana's trial. The Fifth District Court of Appeal has stayed the order. Prosecutors wrote that Kite's conduct "created the appearance that matters involving Kirsten Bridegan, a material prosecution witness and constitutional crime victim, had been prejudged." Gardner has pleaded not guilty; her trial is set for May 2027. Also: the parents of Celeste Rivas Hernandez have filed a wrongful death suit naming David Anthony Burke, his mother and his managers. And in Largo, Florida, Tomasz Kosowski's capital trial continues with no defense counsel and no jury.

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