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Community-led projects are leading the charge to halt biodiversity decline, while researchers make break-throughs in ways to remove predators and prevent reinvasion.
Tāwharanui Open Sanctuary planting day, north of Auckland
Photo: Peter Young / Fisheye Films
While bird song is receding across New Zealand’s mainland, hundreds of community-led projects are leading the charge to turn things around. On the North Island’s East Cape the government answers the call from iwi for help to save the decimated Raukūmara Forest, and in Wellington a dedicated group of urban trappers are taking on Miramar Peninsular with the vision of achieving the world’s first predator-free capital city.
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
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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 chaotic bank robbery scene in November of 2020 is Glenn Aiken. He is the father of 8-year-old Layla Aiken, who was killed by a hit-and-run driver while at her bus stop in 2019.
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.