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A Florida circuit judge declined to overturn Tommy Zeigler’s 50-year-old murder conviction Friday, meaning Zeigler’s long, meandering fight to prove his innocence is likely over.
His lawyers do have 30 days to appeal.
In her decision, Orlando Circuit Judge Leticia Marques wrote that she would not be ordering a new trial for Zeigler. Her ruling came three months after a five-day hearing at a downtown Orlando courthouse.
Zeigler’s lawyers had argued that DNA evidence proved he did not kill his wife, Eunice Zeigler, his in-laws, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and another man, Charlie Mays, at his family’s furniture store in Winter Garden on Christmas Eve 1975.
This is a developing story.
