The man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2022 killing of a St. Johns County father wants to withdraw his guilty plea, according to a motion filed Friday.
Henry Tenon has informed his counsel “that he will not testify against Shanna Lee Gardner or Mario Enrique Fernandez Saldana,” the motion said.
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All three are accused in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Jared Bridegan, who was Gardner’s ex-husband. Fernandez Saldana is Gardner’s estranged husband.
Tenon originally pleaded guilty on March 16, 2023 in the murder of Bridegan, the motion states. In exchange for testifying against Gardner and Fernandez Saldana, the state was going to drop the other charges he was facing and he would face at least 15 years in prison…