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Donna Adelson was arrested Monday night on charges of murder, conspiracy and solicitation in the 2014 death of her former son-in-law.

The judge who presided over the murder trial of Charlie Adelson denied a request by his defense lawyer to interview jurors over a "group chat" that they reportedly created.

Updated: A judge in Leon County, Florida, has denied a motion to interview jurors about an alleged group chat before the murder conviction of a dentist accused of hiring hit men to kill a Florida State University law professor.

In 2014, FSU professor Dan Markel was gunned down in his garage. Since then there have been three trials, four trials and four people convicted.

At about 1:45 p.m., the case went to the jury, which will decide if dentist Charlie Adelson is guilty of the murder of Dan Markel.

A Broward County periodontist’s trial for his role in a murder-for-hire plot to kill a Tallahassee attorney in 2014 continued on Wednesday morning in Leon County with the prosecution playing the recordings by FBI agents of his private conversations in 2016.

A Broward County periodontist listened to the testimony on Tuesday in court of the FBI special agents who helped to identify him as a suspect in the murder of a university law professor.

The alleged go-between in the murder of Florida law professor Dan Markel testified Monday that Markel’s former brother-in-law was the mastermind of the murder plot.

Opening statements are set to begin Thursday morning for the trial of accused murderer Charlie Adelson.

The latest in nearly a decade of investigations, charges and trials in the murder-for-hire of FSU professor Dan Markel is about to begin.