Accomplice in Todd Bridges Case Sentenced
Harvey Duckett, who pleaded no contest to charges that he helped actor Todd Bridges allegedly shoot a convicted drug dealer, was sentenced Monday to three years’ probation by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary Klausner.
Bridges, 24, the former child star of the television sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” was acquitted last Tuesday of attempted murder and attempted voluntary manslaughter charges.
On Thursday, a mistrial was declared on a lesser charge of assault with a deadly weapon after jurors deadlocked 8 to 4 in favor of acquittal on the count. Prosecutors plan to announce Nov. 21 whether they will retry Bridges on the assault count.
Bridges was charged with shooting convicted Texas drug dealer Kenneth (Tex) Clay eight times last Feb. 2 inside a South-Central Los Angeles rock house.
Clay testified that after an argument between himself and the actor, Bridges and Duckett kicked open the door of the house. Bridges then stood over him and repeatedly shot him with a handgun, Clay said.
Bridges testified that he was so intoxicated with cocaine from a four-day drug binge that he does not remember shooting Clay.
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