Dalia Dippolito headed to prison after judge denies appeal bond
All hope of a prison reprieve for former Boynton Beach newlywed Dalia Dippolito vanished Wednesday afternoon, when a judge denied her request for freedom as she appeals her conviction in the 2009 caught-on-camera plot to have her husband murdered.
With a scathing 24-page ruling, Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley on Wednesday closed — possibly for good — the case that made the 34-year-old Dippolito the subject of international headlines with video footage of her at a staged crime scene just days after she told an undercover Boynton Beach Police officer posing as a hitman that she was “5,000 percent sure” she wanted him to kill her then husband, Michael Dippolito.
The denial came with harsh words for Dippolito’s legal team of Greg Rosenfeld and Brian Claypool, who Kelley said essentially tried to create issues for an appeal as part of their trial strategy.
“The defense, essentially, objected to everything,” Kelley wrote, adding that he held more than 100 private conferences at the bench during the state’s case alone in Dippolito’s June trial. “Some of these objections had merit, some did not, and some - candidly - bordered on the frivolous.”
