The prosecution’s case is very simple:
1) Luis Rivera, Sigfredo Garcia’s friend, confessed that he drove Garcia from Miami to Tallahassee to assassinate Dan Markel. Multiple videos support that assertion.
2) Luis Rivera, Sigfredo Garcia and Katherine Magbanua got paid with $100,000, stapled in bundles of $1,000 in $100 bills. It is alleged that the money is from one or several members of the Adelson family, which are Markel’s former-in-laws.
3) Luis Rivera and multiple circumstantial evidences such as phone records indicate that Magbanua is the cog. KM organized the transfer of funds when payment was made.
4) Over time, staying around the financiers allowed Magbanua to make much more (valued at about $70,000 total) than the two retainers (valued at about $35,000 and $30,000 respectively).
It is alleged that KM is the one who made most of the total rewards, cash plus car plus breast augmentation plus monthly notes plus insurance premium for kids plus etc.
Why was the death penalty removed from KM’s case? Puzzling.
Now, she took the witness stand to assert “I know nothing!” The prosecutor fumbled multiple times in the process, as if she were overburdened. This sad story unravels such as a bad series B movie.
Let us wait and see. If the criminals get less than what are in the evidences, I blame the state attorney.