(CNN) — Prosecutors in Florida on Friday rested the state’s case against a woman charged with orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to kill her former son-in-law who was tied up in a messy custody dispute with her daughter in 2014.
The trial of Donna Adelson comes more than a decade after two hit men stalked and killed a law professor in Florida , Dan Markel, fatally shooting him in his Tallahassee garage.
Adelson, 75, faces life in prison if convicted of a first-degree murder charge. She’s also charged with conspiracy and solicitation to commit first-degree murder for Markel’s death.
Markel, 41, a Harvard law grad, was a prominent Florida State University law professor who shared custody of his two toddlers with his ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, in an ongoing custody dispute after their