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Family patriarch Donna Adelson, convicted for planning 2014, was scolded by a judge for crying in court on Thursday Murder case Her ex-girl son, a famous professor of law at Florida State University.
Adelson was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy and recruitment of Daniel Markel’s killing of Daniel Markel ten years ago. Markel was shot dead in the driveway of Tallahassee, a cold-blooded family plot prosecutors called it a cold-blooded family plot to lift his daughter Wendi Adelson out of a painful custody battle after a messy divorce.
Adelson shouted, “Oh my goodness!” According to Florida Second Judicial Circuit Judge Stephen Everett, announcing that the jury had found her first-degree murder and then shaking. Tallahassee Democrats.
“Mrs. Adelson, control yourself.” Everett ordered his 75-year-old grandmother when he publicly cried.
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Donna Adelson made an exciting outbreak in court when he ruled that Dan Markel had murdered Dan Markel on Thursday, September 4, 2025. (Alicia Devine / Tallahassee Democrats / United States via Imagen Images network)
The judge then ordered the jury to leave the court, Gived to Adelson Collect yourself with two minutes of rest.
He told her: “While this is not the result, I’m sure you want it, but there will be no more outbreaks before the jury.”
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A judge condemned Adelson’s outbreak and briefly removed the jury so she could regroup on Thursday, September 4, 2025. (Alicia Devine / Tallahassee Democrats / United States via Imagen Images network)
The prosecutor is test Adelson and her son, Charlie Adelson, arranged the murder so that Wendi could fully monitor their children and start a new life in South Florida.
Donna Adelson was arrested at Miami International Airport a week after the oral surgeon’s son was found guilty in 2023. She has a one-way ticket from Vietnam, which has no extradition treaty with the United States
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Donna Adelson was taken to court after being found guilty on Thursday, September 4, 2025. (Alicia Devine / Tallahassee Democrats / United States via Imagen Images network)
Charlie, like his ex-girlfriend, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes Katherine Magbanua. Prosecutors said Magbanua, who was hired as an intermediary for two men’s prosecutors, said Sigfredo Garcia, Luis Rivera, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case and Luis Rivera, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison after working with the state, prosecutors said.
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Wendi Adelson has repeatedly denied participating in the killings but has not been charged.
This undated family photo shows Dan “Danny” Markel and his two sons. (Photo courtesy of Ruth Markel)
exist His murder, Markel is a rising legal scholar.
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“We have lost our treasure,” his mother, Ruth Markel, said in a victim impact statement after reading the verdict. “My son Dan’s life was a crushing defeat at the age of 41. For 11 years, we have been forced to live, filled with unimaginable pain and heartbreak.”
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The judge said Donna Adelson’s verdict would be “later” but was scheduled to be managed on October 14.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Michael Ruiz of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
