***GUILTY*** Mark Sievers - APPEALS HIS DEATH SENTENCE Oct 13 2025

[arielilane]

Sievers's hearing is expected to last all week.

During the hearing, a judge will consider six points that the defense team has brought up from the trial in court documents including:

• Claim 1: Newly discovered evidence not previously presented at trial undermines the confidence in the verdict
• Claim 2: Failure of a qualified attorney in the case
• Claim 3: Sievers was denied his right to a fair trial and due process because of ineffective assistance of counsel during guilt phase
• Claim 4: Trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel during jury selection
• Claim 5: Sievers was denied his right to a fair trial, due process and reliable adversarial testing due to ineffective assistance of counsel during guilt phase
• Claim 6: Counsel was ineffective by failing to conduct a thorough penalty phase investigation during the trial

Mark Sievers returns to Lee County court to appeal death sentence in wife's murder-for-hire case

Mark Sievers is back in a Lee County court to appeal his death sentence for orchestrating the 2015 murder-for-hire of his wife, Dr. Teresa Sievers.

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[Tricia]

Scroll up and you can see we have the YouTube stream on Websleuths. You can watch and post without leaving Websleuths.

 

[arielilane]

Court adjourned. Return at 9:00 am ET tomorrow.

 

[Megnut]

Court adjourned until tomorrow at 9am.

I'm curious to learn what this "new evidence not presented at trial" is.

I know that appeals are an important part of our justice system but this is so tedious.

It all smacks of "he doesn't like the verdict/sentence so..."

Different attorneys voicing opinions about how they might have handled a trial/sentencing is Monday morning quarterbacking IMO. It's not a basis for ineffective counsel. There are alternate ways to present every case/defendant. Again, it's not ineffective counsel to have done it differently.

Plus if they had a hundred years, what possible mitigating factor would have spared the DP?

I'll be shocked if this is granted.

JMO

 

[Kakidoll]

Court adjourned until tomorrow at 9am.

I'm curious to learn what this "new evidence not presented at trial" is.

I know that appeals are an important part of our justice system but this is so tedious.

It all smacks of "he doesn't like the verdict/sentence so..."

Different attorneys voicing opinions about how they might have handled a trial/sentencing is Monday morning quarterbacking IMO. It's not a basis for ineffective counsel. There are alternate ways to present every case/defendant. Again, it's not ineffective counsel to have done it differently.

Plus if they had a hundred years, what possible mitigating factor would have spared the DP?

I'll be shocked if this is granted.

JMO

it all seems to be based on ineffective council. Didn't he hand pick his attorneys? I mean, he and Mummert looked like best buddies. and his mom was VERY involved if i remember correctly.

 

[Tricia]

Megnut said, "It all smacks of he doesn't like the verdict/sentence so..."​

EXACTLY Megnut. He doesn't have any real evidence to show his sentence was unfair, but that won't stop him from lying and manipulating the truth. He makes me sick.