What you know, alibiers, welcome to another episode of Pretty Lies and Alibis. I'm Gigi. Good to have you here. It's Wednesday, October 15th. This month is flying. Bye, y'all. I didn't do an episode yesterday. I took the time to kind of catch up on some sleep I've been missing and it was great. Raring to go today. We're going to go over my thoughts on Donna Adelson's sentencing.

And for those of you that are newer to the channel, in the past, I have done some episodes in a series called Jail to Prison, which is what inmates can expect when they are making that switch from county jail to the big house.

I have a contact who I've known since childhood,

who is a lifer in California, so clearly very different states with different circumstances,

but what we're going to cover today about her experiences in the over 10 years, she has been

incarcerated in prison and what she's seen is pretty universal. So just starting out with sentencing,

y'all, there's just no words. I'm not sure between dumpster fire and Hot Mess Express,

which phrase adequately describes Donna Adelson's sentencing. Maybe a bit of both, but I've never

seen anything like it in my life.

And just a reminder, Donna is the fifth person to be sentenced for the murder of Dan Markell,

and as expected, she was sentenced to life without parole.

The defense did ask for a downward departure on the lower counts.

Those lower counts were conspiracy to commit murder and

solicitation to commit murder. What is a downward departure? Judge Everett had the discretion

to sentence Donna to a term of imprisonment below the range that's recommended by the state

sentencing guidelines, and they based that on specific mitigating circumstances.

This is often considered when the defendant has a minimal criminal history or minimal participation

in the criminal conduct, but Judge Everett was like, nope, not going to do it. So she was sentenced

to 30 years on counts two and three. The first person that spoke was Dr. Graber.

He's a former congressman. He's an OBGYN, and he loves to toot his own horn because the first five

minutes of a statement was just self-serving, rambling, telling everything that he's accomplished in his life. But a couple of little

key pieces of things he said, I believe she's innocent of these three counts and we believe her.

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