FORT LAUDERDALE – A choose has set a September 30th demo date for Donna Adelson who is accused in a murder for employ the service of plot.
Adelson is billed with first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in what prosecutors allege was a murder-for-hire killing of Florida Point out College legislation professor Dan Markel, her previous son-in-law, in 2014.
Adelson allegedly conspired with her son Dr. Charlie Adelson to eliminate Markel who was in the center of a nasty custody fight with her daughter.
In accordance to prosecutors, Charlie Adelson arranged the killing so his sister could move back again to the Fort Lauderdale region from Tallahassee with her two youngsters. Wendi Adelson experienced been unable to return to South Florida for the reason that Markel had joint custody of their younger little ones following a hugely contentious divorce.
Markel was gunned down in his garage by two gentlemen, Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera, who prosecutors say were being employed by means of Katherine Magbanua, a former girlfriend and worker of Charlie Adelson and the mom of Garcia’s two little ones.
Magbanua and Garcia are now serving daily life sentences for 1st-degree murder, and Rivera is serving a 19-yr sentence soon after pleading guilty to next-diploma murder in exchange for testifying towards them.
Adelson was arrested on November 13 as she and her partner tried using to board a flight out of Miami Worldwide Airport to Vietnam.
Charles Adelson, a South Florida dentist, was convicted of Markel’s murder a 7 days prior to her arrest. He was sentenced to everyday living in prison.
Donna Adelson has pleaded not guilty to the fees.
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