08 January 2018 :

Shawnfatee Bridges has been resentenced to a term of 23-80 years after reaching a plea deal to two counts of third-degree murder. Bridges, whom Berks County prosecutors concede was not the shooter, had won a new trial after the prior district attorney withheld multiple police records that undermined the credibility of a key prosecution witness. On Sept. 1, 2017 (see) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld a federal district court decision overturning the conviction of Bridges and ordered the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to remove Bridges from death row. The court found that Reading prosecutors had unconstitutionally suppressed police records from five separate incidents that would have permitted the defense to undermine the testimony of the key prosecution witness in the case, whom prosecutors falsely argued had nothing to gain by testifying against Bridges.