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Mark Sievers, convicted of orchestrating the death of his wife Dr. Teresa Sievers, received a response to his appeal. In it, the state pushed back hard on the defense’s motion that Sievers deserves a new trial. Sievers was convicted in 2019 for the 2016 death of Dr. Sievers. Now in 2021, his lawyers are fighting […] ....
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 hammers after she returned home alone from a family vacation, prosecutors said. ....
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 during his December 2019 sentencing in Lee County court for the 2015 murder of Dr. Teresa Sievers at her home in Bonita Springs. Credit: WINK News. ....
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 Samantha Stevins in his appellate case being heard in the Florida Second District Court of Appeal. ....