APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – If you want to know if an Appleton area murder trial is on for next month, you’ll have to ask the clerk of court.
The state’s online court records have sealed the file that describes Kandi Siveny’s homicide and substantial battery case.
According to FOX 11, defense lawyer Daniel Sanders convinced Outagamie County Circuit Judge Nancy Krueger to hide the online file. He said he wanted an impartial jury, and he didn’t want those getting notices for jury duty digging up official information about the case.
The 35-year-old Siveny is scheduled to go on trial February 16th. She’s accused of shooting and killing her mother’s domestic partner, Lara Plamann, in 2007 on suspicion that Plamann was cheating.
Authorities said Rosie Campbell of St. Paul was hired to kill Plamann — but she backed out at the last minute, and watched Kandi Siveny carry out the shooting. Campbell had a homicide charge dropped in exchange for her testimony against both Kandi Siveny and her mother Dianna — who’s due to stand trial in June.
Sanders still has a request pending to bar Campbell from testifying against his client. Campbell was sentenced earlier this month to five-and-a-half years in prison for her role in the slaying.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
