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cottonweaver said:
Re-direct, Sarah Dougan up
- Corbett's error on that slide. He was doing 12 hour shifts putting this together, working weekends.


I trust that she's going to get Corbett to clarify the ambiguities around the clincher 12.30 SG - KM call ' I know' versus the WA cell pings on the map down to ABC Licqours. ( Corbett tried to explain that to Rash earlier but it wasn't crystal clear)

Sarah - put the slides back up please!! eg WA to Dan makel asking about his whereabouts for murder planning. ( legal eagles on WS, surely Sarah can republish those during redirect or is it not allowed?)

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ETA - yes Sarah Dougan has asked. Hurrah. If you're not a techy juror, IDK if it's still clear enough tho??

ETA - Dougan also did a good job clearing up Rushbaum's misleading claims on the ' erase this text' segment of cross

ETA - Dougan also described rashbaum's slide of May 2014 calls between the A's as ' random messages' but then Dougan on redirect shows the context by publishing Dan's motions to compel his wife to produce her financials. Dougan publishes 4 filings by Dan from end of April to early may. May 7th is date Wendi's atty tries to withdraw from her case. Dougan emphasises significant issues were occuring in the divorce fight at this time

In middle of redirect Rashbaum asks for a sidebar. Charlie had been looking deflated while Sarah was redirecting Corbett
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Her attorney tried to withdraw? She is such a difficult and entitled personality IMO.
 
How did they think they would get away with this? Did they think the police would just not look for the murderer? Or were they ok with just letting Katie and Co. take the fall and they thought it would never be connected to them? Do they still think that?

I mean, they did get away with it for almost ten years. That’s a long time in the life of two little boys who have had “unfettered access” to them this whole time. Was it the plan to try to hold out until they went to college?
 
Marysmith said:
Her attorney tried to withdraw? She is such a difficult and entitled personality IMO.
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I think Dan went through several attorneys himself in the divorce case. The whole case sounded like a nightmare. Two attorneys who teach -- don't practice law -- as clients. Did they understand how courts really work? JMO.
 
www.wctv.tv

LIVE BLOG: Investigator delves into call, location, text records in Charlie Adelson’s murder trial

Charlie Adelson is accused of conspiring to kill his sister’s ex-husband
www.wctv.tv www.wctv.tv

10/31/23

LIVE BLOG - DAY 4 A.M.: Investigator delves into call, location, text records in Charlie Adelson’s murder trial.​

12:15 p.m.: Lunch break​

12:01 p.m.: FBI agent testifies on recording the Dolce Vita meeting​

Cappleman summoned the next FBI agent. This agent said he was surveilling Charlie Adelson for the FBI’s undercover operation related to Markel’s murder.

He was present at the bump in a security role. Then the investigator attempted to watch a meeting between Donna and Charlie Adelson.

He also tried to record a conversation between Charlie and Magbanua at Dolce Vita.

“I was instructed to make my way to the Dolce Vita restuarant. At the time I arrived, I was handed some recording equipment in a bag... and I tried to position myself close to Mr. Adelson...” he testified.

The witness described the bag as a messenger bag made of leather with many small holes throughout the front. It was outfitted with audio equipment and it was in proper working order that day, he testified.

“So they were seated toward about as far back in the restaurant as you could go... and there was I think one table between us and them,” he said.

Here’s that recording, as exhibited in previous trials related to the case: (see link above)

The defense objected to the prosecution submitting evidence related to the recording, but the judge overruled the objection.

Then the defense began to question the witness.

He asked the witness to testify about the noise level in the restaurant at the time the pair met. The agent testified that the audio wasn’t excessive, but it was noisy like most restaurants.

11:40 am.: FBI agent testifies on “the bump”​

The undercover FBI agent who completed “the bump” is on the stand.

His image and identifiers may not be published to protect covert operations he is currently working, the judge instructed the gallery and media.

This agent said he was posing as a member of the Latin Kings, a South Florida gang of which Luis Rivera was a member.

He ran into Donna Adelson on a street in 2016 and handed her a printout of a news article about Markel’s murder and pretended to extort her. The printout had a cell number and $5,000 written on the front.

The bump was recorded with video and audio, the witness testified.

“The whole point of the bump was you knew Katherine Magbanua was getting paid over time, right?” Rashbaum asked.

“That’s what I was told to say to Ms. Adelson,” the agent said.

The team knew that Rivera was a member of the gang and had the agent pretend to be an associate of Rivera’s when extorting Donna Adelson.

The defense said the wrong date for the bump while speaking to the witness.

“What day was it, I always get it confused,” Rashbaum asked the witness.

The agent testified that he never spoke with Sigfredo Garcia. He does remember talking to Charlie Adelson on a phone call. He told the agent that he would call him back, but the agent testified that Charlie never did.

The operative said he sent Donna Adelson a text, but he didn’t remember the content of it. The defense characterized it as threatening, but he wasn’t sure.

“I don’t think it was that bad,” the agent testified.

Rashbaum attempted to read the message and mispronounced the word “p*to,” a vulgarity in spanish. The witness corrected him, and the defense attorney said his Spanish isn’t great.

“I’m going to defer to the witness on the Spanish,” Everett said, laughing.

Then, the agent testified about his approach to the operation.

“I was instructed not to be so gang-like to Donna Adelson, actually to be polite,” he said.

10:40 a.m.: Defense and prosecution question investigator on travels​

Rashbaum is asking Corbitt about a party he says Donna and Charlie Adelson planned for Harvey Adelson.

The witness clarifies some points related to Wendi’s whereabouts the day of the murder and Donna and Harvey’s travels to Orlando in 2014.

One of the points both sides of the court are focusing on is that Donna Adelson texted her son Charlie that she was “outside” his house the day of the murder.

The defense is focusing on the house’s proximity to the turnpike and suggesting that the Adelson parents were passing it.

The prosecution is focusing on Charlie’s response, which was “10 minutes,” and suggesting that she visited his home that night.

Katherine Magbanua testified Monday that she believed the Adelson parents visited her then-boyfriend Charlie’s home that night and delivered him the money that was used to pay for the hit.

Magbanua suggested that Donna Adelson may have washed the money before dropping it off at her son’s home. On the witness stand Monday she said that the money was in an envelope and was moldy when she opened it.

The South Florida convict also testified that Charlie told her his parents had been at her home right before she arrived there. Magbanua said Charlie rarely stored large sums of cash in his home, leading her to believe his parents visited the home and delivered the money.

A little off topic but noteworthy: Ruth Markel is back in the courtroom again.

The defense asked to re-cross examine the witness, and the judge said he usually didn’t allow it but he’d allow one question. Rashbaum said he had three questions, and the judge told him he could have one question and to pick carefully.

Rashbaum conferred with co-counsel Kate Meyers, and they asked Corbitt about Wendi’s location at the time of the murder.

The phone records indicate Wendi’s phone pinged at a phone tower relatively near her ex-husband’s home that day, but the defense emphasized that it was not the nearest cell tower to Markel’s home.

10:15 a.m.: Ruth Markel is asked to leave​

Tallahassee Police Sgt. Chris Corbitt is back on the stand testifying about cell records around the time of the 2014 murder. It’s defense attorney Daniel Rashbaum’s turn to question him.

The Markel parents, Ruth and Phil, have sat in the gallery for all of the trial so far. But as Corbitt testified Tuesday morning, an alarm connected to Ruth’s phone or watch began to ring.

Circuit Judge Stephen Everett ordered a bailiff to escort her out of the room.

After his order, the prosecution and defense met with the judge. The judge addressed the courtroom, saying this would be the last warning for the gallery to silence their phones or be asked to leave.

@Niner
 
clearskies1 said:
I think Dan went through several attorneys himself in the divorce case. The whole case sounded like a nightmare. Two attorneys who teach -- don't practice law -- as clients. Did they understand how courts really work? JMO.
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I think she had to withdraw because Dan said she was a witness in the case because she was involved in whatever misrepresentations on the financial affidavit WA was doing. So she couldn’t rep Wendi anymore.

ETA- this witness is great! He’s not agreeing with anything that Rash is trying to say is true. “are you aware…” “No, that’s not what happened.”
 
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amicuscurie said:
Isn’t that kind of negated by Katie saying that it’s accurate? Or then we have to believe Katie?
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I understood that it was the quality of the un-dubbed FBI audio that prevented the arrest of CA at the same time as KM. Once the audio was cleaned up/enhanced, the prosecutor agreed to charge CA. MOO
 
amicuscurie said:
How did they think they would get away with this? Did they think the police would just not look for the murderer? Or were they ok with just letting Katie and Co. take the fall and they thought it would never be connected to them? Do they still think that?

I mean, they did get away with it for almost ten years. That’s a long time in the life of two little boys who have had “unfettered access” to them this whole time. Was it the plan to try to hold out until they went to college?
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Assuming CA is guilty.... yes, it was extremely risky. I mean who would have a motive to shoot Dan in his driveway? I think the list of people was short. But it did take the cops awhile (18 months or 2 years?) to connect it SG, LR and KM. Apparently, it was SG's call to HA that was a key break. I believe they looked at the phone records of all the phones that pinged off the cell tower near Dan's gym during the time that they saw the rental car in the parking lot, waiting for Dan to exit. If my memory is correct, SG's phone was one of the phones that pinged off it. JMO.
 
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