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Aiken rejects plea deal, bank robbery case headed to trial Published: May 18, 2021 4:24 PM EDT Updated: May 18, 2021 5:59 PM EDT Recommended The man who, investigators say, confessed to robbing a bank rejected a plea deal on Tuesday. This means Glenn Aiken’s case is headed to trial. Glenn Aiken and his attorneys tried asking the judge for more time in order to decide if he wanted to take the plea deal. But Judge Bruce Kyle says he’s had more than enough time. Aiken wasn’t happy with this decision, shaking his head in disapproval. Lee County Sheriff’s deputies say the man behind a chao...

Wright, the third suspect in the murder, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2016 in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence.    Wright admitted to the killing while testifying on behalf of the prosecution in Rodgers and Mark Sievers trials and said Mark Sievers was going to pay him for the murder.  During both trials, prosecutors claimed Mark Sievers planned his wife’s murder with the help from Wright and was motivated in part by large life insurance policies on Teresa Sievers.   Rodgers was enlisted to help with the murder by Wright and the pair killed Teresa Sievers with...

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 overturned. Judge Kyle called it a “Conflicting verdict.” FILE Photo of convicted killer Jimmy Rodgers ...

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 sentenced to life in prison in December 2019.   Rodgers is being represented by Naples attorney Sam...

Wait for trial could be longer for accused Lake Boyz member Published: February 12, 2021 12:32 PM EST Updated: February 12, 2021 12:39 PM EST Recommended A Fort Myers man accused of being in a gang known as the Lake Boyz will need a new attorney, delaying the trial even longer. Jari McMiller had a hearing on Friday morning to discuss a conflict his attorney Donald Day has representing him in the case. McMiller was among dozens of men accused of being in a gang police say terrorized the Harlem Lakes neighborhood of Fort Myers. Harlem Lakes is just south of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard ...