Mark Seffernick, 61, was sentenced in 2024 to 15 years in prison on five counts of felonious assault with gun specifications. Seffernick appealed the mandatory sentences on the counts, which ran consecutively, arguing the judge imposed them solely “to protect the public.”
A 20-year-old Lima murder case is back in the news. A federal appeals court says a lower court judge can hold a hearing to weigh two juror bias claims in the case of convicted killer Jeronique Cunningham. The 49-year-old Cunningham and his half-brother Cleveland Jackson were convicted and sentenced to death for a deadly drug-related robbery on Eureka Street in Lima back in 2002. Two girls, including a 3-year old, were killed in the attack. Five others were injured.
