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A Florida state prosecutor grilled a dentist Friday before a jury in Tallahassee in the trial over the death of a university law professor who authorities say was killed in a murder-for-hire plot, testing the dentist's story that he was the victim of an elaborate extortion scheme conceived by his ex-girlfriend.
A dentist who is accused of hiring hit men to kill a Florida State University law professor and the ex-husband of his sister took the stand in his own defense on Thursday, telling jurors he is innocent and that his now-imprisoned ex-girlfriend used the killing as part of a plot to extort money from him.
Two FBI agents testified Tuesday in the trial of a dentist accused of hiring hit men to kill a Florida State University law school professor, describing an undercover operation involving one of them posing as a Latin Kings gang member to stimulate conversation that was recorded via a wiretap.
The ex-wife of a slain Florida law school professor testified Friday to a state court jury that she was unaware of an alleged plot by her brother to hire hit men to kill her ex-husband, including when answering a prosecutor's question about foster home arrangements for her kids if she was arrested.
A dentist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, paid two men to kill his sister's ex-husband, a Florida law school professor who was locked in a bitter custody dispute and seen as a "big problem" because he wouldn't relocate back to South Florida with his children, a state prosecutor told a jury Thursday.