Overview

• Jurors returned guilty verdicts Thursday for first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation in the more than two-week trial.
• Adelson now faces a potential life sentence under Florida law.
• The defense rested without her testifying after the judge pressed for a decision with two timeouts and a contempt warning, arguing there was no direct evidence tying her to the plot.
• Prosecutors portrayed her as a controlling matriarch who used her son, Charles Adelson, to hire the hitmen; he was convicted in 2023 and is serving life.
• She was arrested in 2023 at Miami International Airport while attempting to fly one-way to Vietnam, and other participants, including Katherine Magbanua and gunmen Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera, are already imprisoned.