I'm a little late responding to the above questions you asked yesterday, but I don't think Dr. Petrites testimony changed over time. I do think, however, that several statements he made early on were not public knowledge until the state forwarded them to JRR's defense attorney after his trial ended (thus their motion for a new trial, which was denied). I am hoping we we will hear more about these statements during MS trial. The following statements were published in the Naples Daily News on November 5, 2019 as follows:
- Mark Sievers was committing Medicare fraud and was taking cash from patients while also billing Medicare.
- In the months prior to the murder, Petrites overheard a heated discussion between Teresa Sievers and Mark Sievers. Teresa Sievers was unhappy about money paid to Wright for his work on company servers.
- Mark Sievers, at some point early in the investigation, told Petrites that he “knew what all had happened.”
- After Wright was arrested, Mark Sievers wanted the jail staff to allow Wright access to a computer to work on the servers in the medical practice from jail.
- Mark Sievers defended Wright and questioned the evidence against him.
Rodgers' attorneys request new trial, say certain evidence not disclosed in Sievers murder case