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 ....