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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A Capital Trial Begins With No Lawyer and No Jury, Barry Morphew's Bond Goes to $10 Million Cash, and What Was in Matthew Exton's Pockets

Tomasz Kosowski, 47, goes on trial Monday in Pinellas County, Florida, for the first-degree murder of attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, who vanished from his Largo office bathroom in March 2023 and has never...

14 Sep 25min

Twenty-Five Years and No Trial: the 9/11 Case at Guantanamo, More Dead From the Dust Than From the Day, and a Deadline That Closes Today

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, no one has been tried for them. A military judge set a June 2028 trial date last month for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants at Guantanamo ...

11 Sep 22min

Four Clancy Jurors Have Now Spoken and They Don't Agree, Patrick Clancy's Lawyer Says Enough Is Enough, and a Two-Year-Old in Illinois

Four jurors from Lindsay Clancy's murder trial have now spoken publicly, and their accounts conflict. Foreperson Roni Carlson, a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher, told NBC10 Boston the holdou...

10 Sep 23min

Four Clancy Jurors Speak and Their Accounts Don't Match, Patrick Clancy's Lawyer Warns the Conspiracy Theorists, and a Case in Illinois

10 Sep 23min

Lindsay Clancy's Lawyer Asks Trump for a Pardon, Barry Morphew Lasts One Day on House Arrest, and Two Women Killed by Their Caregiver

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked President Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy during a Good Morning America interview Tuesday, days after her murder trial ended in a mistrial — a request the presid...

9 Sep 22min

An Attorney Convicted of Attempted Murder at a Restaurant Opening, Kimberly Sullivan Rejects Two Plea Deals, Mackenzie Shirilla's Last Door

A Lucas County jury convicted attorney Matthew Exton, 43, of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault and multiple firearm specifications Friday, in the April 2025 armed confrontation at the ...

8 Sep 24min

The Whole Lindsay Clancy Case, Start to Finish: Four Months of Care, Eighty-Four Witnesses, Seven Days of Deadlock, and No Answer at All

A mistrial was declared Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after the jury deadlocked over seven days and roughly 38 hours. With courts closed for the holiday, a full retrospective: the night of J...

7 Sep 27min