Court agrees to block some evidence from being released before Shanna Gardner’s trial in murder-for-hire case

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Days after the State Attorney’s Office released another round of discovery material in the Jared Bridgean murder-for-hire case, the judge granted a motion from Bridegan’s ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, requesting that some evidence not be released before the trial.

Gardner, who is accused alongside her estranged husband, Mario Fernandez, of orchestrating Bridegan’s shooting death in 2022, made some specific requests to withhold some materials from the public ahead of the trial.

Gardner’s attorneys argued that tattoo photographs and communications from Gardner in jail are personal and private and not relevant to the charges against her…

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