Donna Adelson found guilty in hired hit of daughter's exhusband in Florida Amanda Lee Myers and Jeff Burlew, USA TODAY NETWORK September 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM 0 A jury has convicted a Florida grandmother of murder in the shooting death of her daughter's exhusband, who was killed by hitmen amid a bitter...
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Amanda Lee Myers and Jeff Burlew, USA TODAY NETWORK September 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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A jury has convicted a Florida grandmother of murder in the shooting death of her daughter's ex-husband, who was killed by hitmen amid a bitter divorce and custody battle.
Donna Adelson was convicted on Thursday, Sept. 4, of murder, solicitation to commit first-degree murder and conspiracy in the shooting death of Daniel Markel, her former son-in-law and a law professor at Florida State University killed in his Tallahassee driveway on July 18, 2014.
Adelson cried out when the first guilty verdict was read and wept as the other two also came in as guilty.
The jury reached a swift decision after attorneys on both sides delivered their closing arguments in the more than two-week trial.
Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman apologized to jurors that "there's not a smoking gun" in the case against Adelson. "But she was too smart for that."
She urged them to find Adelson guilty: "Don't let the way she thought she'd get away with this be the way she gets away with this."
Adelson's attorney, Jackie Fulford, told jurors that prosecutors lacked much evidence and that Adelson was innocent.
The verdict mark the end of a decade-long trial process that included the convictions of four others in the murder-for-hire plot to kill Daniel Markel.
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Donna Adelson watches her defense team prepares for closing arguments Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.
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