TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – During her ultimate on Monday, Leon County Assistant State Attorney Georgia Cappleman requested a jury to ship justice for Daniel Markel, a 2014 homicide sufferer.
Cappleman additionally requested the jury to take into account the testimony of a witness who reported issues about Markel’s former brother-in-law Charlie Adelson, of Fort Lauderdale.
“He testified about Charlie Adelson bragging in the hot tub about connections to a Cuban criminal element,” Cappleman advised the jury in court docket about Jeffrey Lacasse’s testimony.
Cappleman additionally mentioned Adelson, 47, idea he used to be “untouchable.” After seven days of testimony, the jury deliberated for 3 hours on Monday afternoon and located Adelson guilty of first-degree homicide, conspiracy to devote homicide, and solicitation to devote homicide.
“All kidding aside, her brother really had looked into hiring a hitman to kill Dan Markel,” Cappleman mentioned about Lacasse’s testimony.
Lacasse, a professor of social paintings at Florida State University, the place Markel additionally labored as a regulation professor, testified all over Adelson’s trial on Oct. 27.
Lacasse, who used to be in a romantic courting with Adelson’s sister, reported that he used to be conscious about her kid custody dispute with Markel.
“She asked to speak to me confidentially and, in a very serious tone of voice, told me that Charlie had investigated all possible options to take care of the problem … including hiring a hitman,” Lacasse mentioned in court docket later including, “This was something very different. This was chilling, a little scary, it made my stomach flip. I found it disturbing.”
Markel, 41, died on July 19, 2014. He used to be speaking at the telephone in his automotive when he used to be shot within the head two times, simply out of doors of his house in Tallahassee, police mentioned.
Lacasse testified Adelson nervous him and reported his suspicions about an alleged effort to body him for the homicide.
Detectives discovered mobile phone and credit card data appearing Lacasse used to be touring in Tennessee on the time of the homicide in Tallahassee.
Also within the trial, Adelson’s ex-girlfriend Katherine “Katie” Magbanua testified she hooked up him to the hitmen who have been Sigfredo “Tuto” Garcia, of Miami Beach, the daddy of her youngsters, and Luis “Tato” Rivera, of North Miami, a Latin King gang member and buddy.
“What you see in this trial is a mountain of reasonable doubt,” Attorney Daniel Rashbaum, who represented Adelson, mentioned all over his ultimate argument.
Rivera took a plea deal for 19 years in jail for second-degree homicide. Garcia and Magbanua have been convicted of first-degree homicide. Adelson’s sentencing is pending.
“Stay tuned,” Cappleman advised newshounds about the potential for different circumstances similar to the continuing investigation into Markel’s homicide.
Adelson’s sister Wendi Adelson and his folks Donna and Harvey Adelson have been frequently discussed all over the trial, however there have been no circumstances towards them.
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