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Divorce Attorney Recalls 'Inappropriate' Court Filings By Murder-For-Hire Victim

Wendi Adelson's lawyer for her divorce with Dan Markel was the first witness in the murder-for-hire trial of her mother, Donna Adelson, in Tallahassee, Florida, today (Wednesday, September 3, day 8). Kristin Adamson described the dispute between Wendi and Dan over custody of their two young sons, which prosecutors allege motivated his murder-for-hire, "run of the mill," but her testimony began to detail the increasingly aggressive tactics Markel used. Adelson's lawyer Joshua Zelman questioned Adamson in direct-examination. You can watch Assistant State Attorney Sarah Kathryn Dugan cross-examine her here:    • Lawyer Testifies Donna Adelson Didn't Medd...   03:00 "She had a relocation case where she desired to go to Miami. All relocation cases are a little bit more difficult than just regular custody cases, because we almost always have to have a court determination on a relocation case." 06:35 "How difficult is it to get court approval for relocation?" "I tell them it's a 50/50 shot at best. Sometimes a little bit more. Sometimes less." 09:37 "I personally have only won one case in 37 years for relocation." 21:30 "Is there anything improper or illegal with one party offering a financial incentive to the other party to obtain relocation?" "No." 28:00 "So based on what you've discussed, Mr. Markel was aware of the non-marital status of that portion of Wendi Adelson's portion of what she would get?" "He was." 35:50 "It was pretty obvious that he had actually written this pleading himself, and the lawyer just signed off on it." 37:45 "I did not think he was going to be successful in his response, because it was an inappropriate pleading." 40:00 "The judge read all of the pleadings, and she said that she was very unhappy with Professor Markel's pleadings. She did not like them." 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