The Edwards/Shatzer Fourteen-Day Break in Custody Requirement

The Edwards/Shatzer Fourteen-Day
Break in Custody Requirement

Robert C. Phillips
DDA, Retired
November, 2015

             On January 4, 2010, Bryan David Bridgeford and two others committed a home invasion robbery at a residence in the town of Dos Palos, California.  Although all three robbers were wearing masks, the victim quickly recognized Bridgeford (tipped off by Bridgeford’s voice, his unique physical characteristics, and one of the other robbers calling him by his first name) as someone with whom he’d grown up.  Bridgeford carried with him a rifle with a distinguishable “see-through clip.”  The victim was later able to recognize this rifle at Bridgeford’s subsequent murder trial (see below).[1] 

The next day, January 5, two Sureño street gang members (Leonel Medina and Juan Eduardo Avalos) were shot to death in Medina’s garage located on Highway 33 in Dos Palos.  From the casings left at the scene, it was determined that a 12-guage shotgun and a .22-calibler rifle were used in the murders.  Bridgeford, Jose German, and two other fellow North Side Barrio Locos—a Norteño gang—gang members were caught on a Walmart store surveillance video the day before, apparently stealing ammunition for both weapons.[2] 

On January 6, the Dos Palos Police Chief, Barry Mann, went to Bridgeford’s home as a part of the January 4th home invasion investigation.  He contacted Bridgeford at the front door and asked him if he knew why he was there.  Bridgeford guessed that the chief’s visit was “because ....

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