Jury convicts Florida matriarch in murder-for-hire killing of her former son-in-law
Tallahassee, Fla. (AP)-An kindergarten of a Southern Florida family of Zengin was sentenced to the murder of a leading law professor who was locked in a painful custody war with his ex-wife when he was shot on Thursday, Thursday.
The jury members made guilty decisions at the hearing for weeks. Donna Adelson On charges of first -degree murder, conspiracy and demand for the murder of Daniel Markel, Professor of Law at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The case has attracted attention in Florida for more than a decade with a scattered divorce, tensions in wealthy mother -in -law and custody fights that led to killing.
When the judge explained that the jury condemned Adelson from the first -degree murder, the defendant “Oh!” He shouted. And he began to tremble and cry.
The jury was later removed from the courtroom, and Florida gave a two -minute break to gather himself to Stephen Everett Adelson, the second judicial judge judge.
“Although this is not the result, I’m sure you want, there will be no other explosion in front of the jury,” he said.
Daniel Markel’s mother Ruth Markel said in a statement after the decision of his son’s deep sorrow and sorrow after his death.
“We lost a treasure. My son Dan’s life was 41 years old tragically shortened,” he said. “We have been forced to life for 11 years full of imaginary pain and heart attack.”
Daniel Markel and Hendi Adelson divorced and shared custody of two children, but to be closer to the rest of his family, he wanted to carry them from Tallahassee to Southern Florida (595 kilometers). However, a judge decided that Wendi Adelson could not move children and refused to move Markel.
The prosecutors claimed that Donna Adelson’s daughter and two young grandchildren allowed the murder of Markel after allowing her daughter and two young grandchildren to move to the south.
The judge said that the sentence would come on a “later date ,, but would be a planned case administration for October 14.
Adelson was the fifth person hanging out hearing Prosecutors Rental Murder Land To kill Markel. Already among those who sentenced him to life imprisonment for killing Donna Adelson’s son Charles Adelson.
Wend Adelson Participation Rejected He was killed and not accused.
At the hearing, prosecutors painted Donna Adelson as the calculated and controlling kindergarten of a wealthy Southern Florida family, and means to regulate the murder of the old son, which he “hated”.
Defense lawyers insisted that there was not enough evidence to connect the state’s aging grandmother to the murder plan, but rather emphasized the roles played by others, and aroused two suspicion of Adelson’s adult children.
Charles Adelson is sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment like his ex -girlfriend Katherine Magbanua. Prosecutors, Magbanua’s in between For two men rented to kill, Sigfredo GarciaHe was sentenced to life imprisonment in prison and Luis Rivera, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison after cooperating with the state.
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