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Ex-Jail Cellmate Testifies Donna Adelson Confessed To Murder-For-Hire

A former jail podmate of Donna Adelson testified in her murder-for-hire trial today (Friday, August 29, day 6) that Adelson told her she did what she's accused of (masterminding the murder of her former son-in-law, Dan Markel because she wanted to keep her grandkids but, "it wasn't supposed to go that far." Patricia Byrd testified she talked to Adelson "all day every day" in the six to seven months they were in the Leon County Jail together in Tallahassee, Florida. (Inmate Drina Barnhardt testified after Byrd; watch her testimony here    • 'Jail Daughter' Testifies About Donna Adel...  ) Assistant State Attorney Sarah Kathryn Dugan questioned Byrd in direct-examination. Adelson's lawyer Josh Zelman cross-examined her. 03:17 "Did you ever outright ask her whether she did what she's accused of?" "I did." 08:22 Cross-examination 11:13 "Now, isn't it true that the only thing that she did was write checks to Ms. Magbanua?" "I'm not sure." Case background: Donna Adelson, 75, is accused of orchestrating the murder-for-hire of her former son-in-law because she wanted her daughter and grandchildren to move to Miami. Adelson is accused of conspiring with her son Charlie Adelson more than a decade ago to hire hitmen to kill Dan Markel, who was a Florida State University law professor and the father of her two young grandsons. Her defense is that she had no knowledge of what hitmen Luis Rivera and Sigfredo Garcia were going to do, and that prosecutors are only focusing on her hatred for Markel to show she had a motive to want him murdered, when there's no evidence she was actually involved. Rivera, a former gang leader, is serving a 19-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and testifying against Garcia, who fired the fatal shots, as well as the woman who linked Garcia to the victim: Katherine "Katie" Magbanua, who was Garcia's on-again, off-again girlfriend and also was in a relationship with Adelson's son Charlie Adelson. Garcia was convicted in 2019 and Magbanua in 2022. Rivera also testified in Charlie Adelson's trial in 2023, and Adelson was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. After their son's trial, Donna Adelson and her husband, Harvey, bought one-way tickets to Vietnam. Police arrested her on the jetway at Miami International Airport on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree murder. Her trial is expected to go through Sept. 5 in Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee, Florida. Donna Adelson's lawyers are Josh Zelman and Jackie Fulford of Tallahassee. Assistant State Attorneys Georgia Cappleman and Sarah Kathryn Dugan are prosecuting. The judge is Stephen Everett, who is the chief judge of Florida's 2nd Judicial Circuit. ****************************************************************************** Become a member of Meghann's YouTube channel to show your support:    / @meghanncuniff   Subscribe to Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff: https://www.legalaffairsandtrials.com... Support Meghann on Patreon:   / meghanncuniff   BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/meghanncunif... Tik Tok:   / meghannmcuniff   Instagram:   / meghanncuniff   Facebook:   / meghanncuniff   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meghanncuniff Venmo: MeghannCuniff