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Updates: Day 5 of witness questioning wraps up early in Mark Sievers trial

Posted at 9:21 AM, Nov 26, 2019
and last updated 2019-11-26 19:07:47-05

UPDATE (11 AM) -- Judge Kyle has dismissed the jury for the day, and asked them to return Wednesday.

The state says they have 3 witnesses scheduled for Wednesday, and their remaining 5 will be on Monday.

THe defense says they are planning on recalling several of the state's witnesses, this includes Curtis Wright.
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UPDATE (10:45 AM) -- The next state witness is Michael Lacombe, a Lee County Sheriff's Office Digital Forensic Specialist.

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UPDATE (10:30 AM) -- The next state witness is Matthew DeShazo, LCSO Digital Forensics Examiner. DeShazo examined electronic devices collected during the Teresa Sievers murder investigation.

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UPDATE (9:45 AM) -- The next state witness is Joseph Graham, who works in the regional field support department for RaceTrac. Gram helped detectives locate surveillance video from a gas station in Brooksville, FL.

He was followed by Lt. Donald Fewell from the Lee County Sheriff's Office. Lt. Fewell says he works in the video production and video retrieval department, and says he retrieved surveillance videos for the Teresa Sievers murder investigation.
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UPDATE (9:15 AM) -- Next state witness is Laura Bland, manager of a Circle K in Bushnell, Florida.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The state is continuing to question witnesses in the trial of Mark Sievers Tuesday morning after a busy day of witnesses on Monday.

The first state witness is Jerry Lubinski of Hillsboro, Missouri. He met Curtis Wright at the church they both attended.

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