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Lawyer Testifies Donna Adelson Didn't Meddle In Divorce & Custody Filings

Florida divorce lawyer Kristin Adamson testified in Donna Adelson's murder-for-hire trial in Tallahassee today (Wednesday, September 3, day 8). Adamson represented Donna's daughter Wendi in divorce from Dan Markel. She testified in direct-exam that the dispute between Wendi and Dan over custody of their two young sons, which prosecutors allege motivated Dan's murder-for-hire, as "run of the mill," and she detailed the increasingly aggressive tactics Markel used. Assistant State Attorney Sarah Kathryn Dugan questioned Adamson in cross-examination. You can watch Adelson's lawyer Joshua Zelman question Adamson in direct-exam here:    • Divorce Attorney Recalls 'Inappropriate' C...   01:31 "So you wouldn't have knowledge of Wendi sending pleadings to her mom and saying, 'let's edit this'?" "No, because I wouldn't have edited it based on that anyway." 03:55 "I don't like to lose either. So there's that we all I don't like it. That's why I don't like to go to court if I think I'm gonna lose." 04:42 "How did Donna Adelson feel about not winning the relocation?" "I don't know how she felt." 06:07 "Eventually, did you seek to have Dan Markel held in contempt of court?" "I did." 09:16 "Would you describe this divorce as contentious?" "I wouldn't describe the divorce as particularly contentious at all compared to most of the divorces I had." 12:20 Zelman on re-direct 16:35 "I take responsibility for my pleadings, and I've never filed a pleading based upon what a client told me I have to do." 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