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A man convicted in 2019 of hiring two individuals to murder his wife is filing a motion for a rehearing in hopes of reversing a recent ruling.

Death row appeal of Mark Sievers, a Bonita Springs man convicted in 2019 of hiring two men to murder his wife, Teresa Sievers, turned down Thursday.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction and death sentence of a Lee County man in the murder-for-hire death of his wife.

Jimmy Rodgers, convicted of helping to kill Dr. Teresa Sievers, said he is innocent and plans to file a new trial.

Mark Sievers and his defense team are fighting for a new trial after he was sentenced to death in 2020 for orchestrating the murder of his wife Dr. Teresa Sievers. On Tuesday, the Florida Supreme Court heard arguments from prosecutors and Sievers’ attorney. Sievers’ attorney Karen Kinney got right to her point, calling Curtis Wayne […]

Mark Sievers’ attorneys are set to argue in front of Florida’s highest court that he deserves a new trial on Tuesday. Sievers was found guilty in 2019 of orchestrating the death of his wife Teresa Sievers, a well-known doctor in Southwest Florida. Sievers hired his longtime friend Curtis Wayne Wright and Jimmy Rodgers to kill […]

Jimmy Rodgers appeals conviction in murder of Teresa Sievers Published: April 29, 2021 8:18 PM EDT Updated: April 29, 2021 11:38 PM EDT Attorneys for one of the men convicted in the brutal murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers filed an appeal on his behalf Thursday. Jimmy Rodgers was convicted of killing Sievers inside her Bonita Springs home in 2015 and sentenced to life in prison in 2019. Rodgers’ attorney told us comments from Judge Bruce Kyle at the sentencing sum up why the case should be overtur...

An attorney for Jimmy Ray Rodgers called for his acquittal in a brief filed Tuesday. Rodgers was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2015 bludgeoning death of a Bonita Springs doctor.  Rodgers originally faced a first-degree murder charge and the possibility of the death penalty as one of three men charged in the murder of Teresa Sievers.   A Lee County jury found Rodgers guilty of the lesser charge of second-degree murder, as well as trespassing, in October 2019. Rodgers was sent...