Annoying for sure. But not a bad strategy. The odds that one person on a N Florida jury would hold the view that "the government" is somehow an evil entity that is designed to oppress and defraud are not low. DeCoste is basically trying to change the state from the good guys seeking justice to the bad guys who are arbitrarily throwing around their power to crush innocent people. Total BS IMO but if you can make that narrative stick with one person--mistrial.
GUILTY FL - Dan Markel, 41, FSU Law Professor, Tallahassee, 18 July 2014 - #8 *arrests*
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Annoying for sure. But not a bad strategy. The odds that one person on a N Florida jury would hold the view that "the government" is somehow an evil entity that is designed to oppress and defraud are not low. DeCoste is basically trying to change the state from the good guys seeking justice to the bad guys who are arbitrarily throwing around their power to crush innocent people. Total BS IMO but if you can make that narrative stick with one person--mistrial.
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Jada E. Williams @JadaEWilliams 4m4 minutes ago
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You don't want to miss the @ABC2020 special about the trial. Plus I'll be talking about my experience inside the courtroom.
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This popular law professor was gun downed in his own garage - why? Follow the clues in the notorious murder trial playing out this week on an all-new 20/20 - @MattGutmanABC reports tomorrow at 9|8c on @ABC. https://abcn.ws/2IA4SsK
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Jada E. Williams Retweeted 20/20
You don't want to miss the @ABC2020 special about the trial. Plus I'll be talking about my experience inside the courtroom.
---20/20Verified account @ABC2020
This popular law professor was gun downed in his own garage - why? Follow the clues in the notorious murder trial playing out this week on an all-new 20/20 - @MattGutmanABC reports tomorrow at 9|8c on @ABC. https://abcn.ws/2IA4SsK
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Off shore bank accounts being loaded up fo’ sure... IMO...
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Karl EttersVerified account @KarlEtters 11m11 minutes ago
..."Katherine is innocent of all three of these charges. To convict her you have to believe Luis Rivera."
Karl EttersVerified account @KarlEtters 7m7 minutes ago
Pretty much the crux of Magbanua's defense right here: "Desperate government. Desperate Luis Rivera."
Jada E. Williams @JadaEWilliams 4m4 minutes ago
"He could only think one dimensionally. He didn't see how this could contradict things later on because what he had was limited... He had the basics but when you get to the details, you realize there's no way that he was correct." #MarkelMurderTrialWTXL
Jada E. Williams @JadaEWilliams 4m4 minutes ago
"You usually get more of the story in the beginning and then your memory fades over time. His gets better over time." this what DeCoste thinks of Luis Rivera #MarkelMurderTrialWTXL
..."Katherine is innocent of all three of these charges. To convict her you have to believe Luis Rivera."
Karl EttersVerified account @KarlEtters 7m7 minutes ago
Pretty much the crux of Magbanua's defense right here: "Desperate government. Desperate Luis Rivera."
Jada E. Williams @JadaEWilliams 4m4 minutes ago
"He could only think one dimensionally. He didn't see how this could contradict things later on because what he had was limited... He had the basics but when you get to the details, you realize there's no way that he was correct." #MarkelMurderTrialWTXL
Jada E. Williams @JadaEWilliams 4m4 minutes ago
"You usually get more of the story in the beginning and then your memory fades over time. His gets better over time." this what DeCoste thinks of Luis Rivera #MarkelMurderTrialWTXL
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Again DaCoste is fibbing here - Rivera never said they were smoking marijuana in the car and there's no way for Trooper Downing to smell cocaine. Maybe he could smell alcohol but he may just have been phoning it in that day. And if he didn't get close to Rivera's face, he wouldn't smell it. Either way, this misleading of the jury is bad for defense.
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Or the trooper was intimidated by a Latin King.....
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Whatever the reason, that trooper is probably still here with us because he didn't ask any questions of them that day. I have to believe that Rivera wouldn't have hesitated if it had come down to it.
That trooper would have smoked em both. They don’t play. Problem would have been solved and Danny would be alive.
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Woman accused of executing a law professor denies being part of murder-for-hire plot and claims her lover financed hit after he divorced his sister
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"Closing arguments in the trial of Katherine Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia, who stand accused of murdering Dan Markel, began Thursday in Tallahassee court
"Markel, a Florida State University professor, was murdered in July 2014
Markel was shot twice in the head in his Tallahassee garage
Cops say Markel was killed in a plot orchestrated by his ex-wife Wendi Adelson's family so she could break the divorce terms and move to Miami with her kids
Magbanua allegedly helped get Garcia, the father of her children, and his friend Luis Rivera involved as hitmen in the plot
She denied involvement and blamed Markel's ex brother-in-law Charlie Adelson
Her brother Charlie and mother Donna are accused of giving Magbanua, Garcia and Luis Rivera a $100,000 payout for the killing
If convicted Garcia could get the death penalty, Magbanua could get life in jail
The Adelsons have not been charged in the case..."
Katherine Magbanua claims innocence in Dan Markel murder trial | Daily Mail Online
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10 October 2019
"Closing arguments in the trial of Katherine Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia, who stand accused of murdering Dan Markel, began Thursday in Tallahassee court
"Markel, a Florida State University professor, was murdered in July 2014
Markel was shot twice in the head in his Tallahassee garage
Cops say Markel was killed in a plot orchestrated by his ex-wife Wendi Adelson's family so she could break the divorce terms and move to Miami with her kids
Magbanua allegedly helped get Garcia, the father of her children, and his friend Luis Rivera involved as hitmen in the plot
She denied involvement and blamed Markel's ex brother-in-law Charlie Adelson
Her brother Charlie and mother Donna are accused of giving Magbanua, Garcia and Luis Rivera a $100,000 payout for the killing
If convicted Garcia could get the death penalty, Magbanua could get life in jail
The Adelsons have not been charged in the case..."
Katherine Magbanua claims innocence in Dan Markel murder trial | Daily Mail Online
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( Sigfredo Garcia)
(Luis Rivera )
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I went food shopping thinking Decoste would be over when I got back...
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Karl EttersVerified account @KarlEtters 7m7 minutes ago
..."(Rivera’s) pretty much checking every box on the jury instructions of why you should not trust him. But they want you to believe him."
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..."There’s no amount of money you could pay a mother of two to risk never seeing her children again," DeCoste said. "Let me get this straight. Katherine would sacrifice her children so Wendi can be with hers?"
..."(Rivera’s) pretty much checking every box on the jury instructions of why you should not trust him. But they want you to believe him."
Karl EttersVerified account @KarlEtters 4m4 minutes ago
..."There’s no amount of money you could pay a mother of two to risk never seeing her children again," DeCoste said. "Let me get this straight. Katherine would sacrifice her children so Wendi can be with hers?"
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This is painful and embarrassing.
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RSBM. What about a father??? Could they pay fathers LR and SG enough? Or does that only apply to mothers? JMO.
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No such luck...
Also she has sacrificed her children in a way for her own selfish needs. Putting a breast augmentation over insurance for them! JMO.
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SG ran up to CA's window and started banging on it???
His own client said he never approached the car. He was just yelling.
eta: What?? This man just said that SG and CA made a deal for SG to do this murder in exchange for CA leaving KM??
His own client said he never approached the car. He was just yelling.
eta: What?? This man just said that SG and CA made a deal for SG to do this murder in exchange for CA leaving KM??
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Divorce Attorney Says Custody Is An Incredibly Emotional Thing; People Can Act Crazy #MarkelMurder
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FSU Law Professor Murder Trial Day 9 Co-Defendant Katherine Magbanua Testifies Part 4
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FSU Law Professor Murder Trial Day 9 Co-Defendant Katherine Magbanua Testifies Part 5
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FSU Law Professor Murder Trial Day 9 Co-Defendant Katherine Magbanua Testifies Part 4
FSU Law Professor Murder Trial Day 9 Co-Defendant Katherine Magbanua Testifies Part 5
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