HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania court has vacated the sentence for two brothers who pleaded guilty to killing their parents in Lehigh County, saying the judge in the case should have recused himself.
Judge Doug Reichley sentenced Bryan and David Freeman to 60 years to life in prison in February 2024 after a resentencing hearing to reconsider the automatic life sentence they had received previously.
Bryan was 17 and David was 16 when they, along with their 18-year-old cousin Nelson Benny Birdwell, killed the brothers’ parents and 11-year-old brother in brutal fashion. It happened on Feb. 26, 1995, inside the family’s Salisbury Township home…