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The judge defines the hearing of bonds for Donna Adelson after defense complains of abuse of prison – Talahasi Democrat

The judge defines the hearing of bonds for Donna Adelson after defense complains of abuse of prison – Talahasi Democrat

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Donna Adelson, claiming that she was physically abused and blackmailed at the Leon County Retention restaurant, wants to be released on a bond in anticipation of the allegation trial that she helped organize the murder of Dan Markel.

At a proposal submitted on Friday, Adelson’s attorneys said the 75-year-old youth suffered from various medical problems, from shortness of breath from injury he suffered during an “attack” by another prisoner who blackmails her.

Her lawyers, Josh Zelman and Jackie Fulford of Talahassi, wrote that she had experienced other cases of abuse in prison, that she only received a few hours of sleep every night and that she was unable to talk to her lawyers because of the noise and hearing of prison. They said the conditions would lead to “her inability to gain fair experience”.

“Her health fails,” says the defense proposal, “she experiences constant pain, cannot hear normal discussions … and does not get part of the amount of sleep needed to help her protection.”

In the meantime, her lawyers have submitted a separate proposal that wants to block potential evidence of a bomb and a request in the contract of killing.

In this telephone conversation, Dona Adelson, a still free woman at this point, talks about any suicide or running abroad. Less than a week later, she was arrested on murder accusations while trying to get on Miami’s flight with her husband Harvey Adelson and one-way tickets to Vietnam.

Adelson’s lawyers, in their proposal to determine Bond, have requested a hearing of Arthur, in which the defense and the state will argue whether it should be released in anticipation, which should start on June 3. Her lawyers wrote that it did not pose a risk of harm to the community and that it was not a risk of flight.

– Mrs. Adelson has no passport and is placed in “without a list of flights” and thus cannot schedule a flight bound to any internal or foreign destination, “the defense writes. “Her husband is 80 years old and would move to live with Mrs. Adelson in Talahasi, Florida, from the release through the process.”

The Judge of Leon Circuit Stephen Evert has set a court date for February 27, leaving three hours to listen to the defense requests and to make a hearing of Arthur.

Last week, Sheriff’s office of Leon County confirmed that Donna Adelson had been moved to protective custody of prison after complaining that she had been “grabbed” by another prisoner.

Her lawyers wrote that before she was moved, she was held in a pod with 60 other prisoners. Now, they said that she would serve her time in solitude until the test begins without access to “other friendly prisoners” or hours of art she takes.

According to her lawyers, Adelson “was physically abused and threatened by abuse” during her 14-month imprisonment in prison. One of the first acts of abuse happened in the shower, where she was touched on her back by another prisoner.

The most incident happened when a prisoner “bumped into it from the back” and knocked it into the frame of his bed. The most severe and frightening “incident happened around October 7, when a prisoner pulled his hand from behind as she was brushing her teeth.

The prisoner asked to start ordering objects for her can be a weekly or face “physical harm,” the defense proposal said.

“Fearing for her life, D -Ja Adelson began to tell her husband to order the packages every week,” her lawyers write. “She never told her husband why he simply suggested that Mrs. Adelson wanted to eat for herself because the dishes provided by the Leon County Center were disgusting.”

Her lawyers added that she ordered her own items for the dining room in one package and that her husband ordered two others for the prisoner who “blackmails” her.

“She holds the extra items for the dining room in the area of ​​her two -story bed and either the aggressive prisoner comes to get the items themselves,” they wrote, “or send someone else to receive objects as she wants.”

Adelson has been accused of first -degree murder, conspiracy and a request at Markel’s death in 2014, her former son -in -law. Markel, a professor of law at Florida State University, was killed in the midst of a bitter court battle with his ex -wife Wendy Adelson, who is Dona Adelson’s daughter and Charlie Adelson’s sister.

Charlie Addelson, one of the two struck men and an accomplice, all serve as a life in prison for the crime. The other hired killer cooperates and received 19 years in prison.

Contact Jeff Burlew at [email protected] or 850-599-2180.

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