Global Courant 2023-04-19 04:09:24
A western Michigan man serving a life sentence for murdering his mother and two sisters when he was a teenager will receive a reduced prison sentence and a chance at liberty, a judge said Tuesday.
Kent County Judge Mark Trusock said he will sentence Jon Siesling to years in prison on June 8. The judge could have been sentenced to life in prison.
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Siesling was 17 in 2003 when he bludgeoned and stabbed his mother and also killed his sisters, ages 6 and 15, at their home in Walker, near Grand Rapids.
A Grand Rapids, Michigan, man who killed his mother and two younger sisters in 2003 has been sentenced by a district judge to a reduced sentence.
He was convicted of first-degree murder and received an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole. Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Michigan Supreme Court have given so-called living juveniles the chance to be released.
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Siesling’s new minimum sentence would be anywhere from 25 to 40 years, which would then qualify him for review by the state’s probation committee. He gets credit for 20 years already served.
“He’s changed,” Tina Olson, Siesling’s attorney, told the judge last week. “His remorse, his horror for what he did to his family, is real and lasting.”
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In 2003, Siesling’s trial attorneys said he suffered from depression and dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
