Overview

• Judge Stephen Everett imposed life without parole for first-degree murder, plus 30 years for conspiracy and solicitation to be served consecutive to the life term.
• Adelson, 75, addressed the court proclaiming innocence and decrying the verdict, and her attorneys said she will appeal.
• Markel, a Florida State University law professor, was shot in 2014 outside his Tallahassee home during a period of fraught family litigation.
• Four others, including Adelson’s son Charles Adelson, are already imprisoned in connection with the plot, along with Katherine Magbanua and hitmen Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera.
• Adelson was arrested in 2023 at Miami International Airport while trying to board a one-way flight to Vietnam following a recorded jail call with her son.