Descalzo also disclosed in open court that she learned about Donna Adelson’s alleged mistreatment at the jail from Dan Rashbaum, the Miami lawyer who represented her son at trial. She said Rashbaum was able to “swap out” a meeting with Charlie Adelson for a recent one with Donna Adelson.
In her motion, Descalzo wrote that Donna Adelson had been sitting in her cell “naked all day with nothing but a mattress on the floor.” She said jail officers were “intentionally punishing” her and violating her constitutional rights.
Rashbaum, who attended the arraignment, blasted the jail’s treatment of Donna Adelson in a brief interview outside the courthouse.
“They’re torturing her,” Rashbaum said. “And that shouldn’t happen in this country.”