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Donna Adelson's defense moves reveal a possible trial strategy, but will 57 plus witnesses end up bearing her and getting the matriarch of this murder for a higher

plot against Dan Markell? Will it end up just bearing her? We're about to find out in a few short weeks.

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Donna Adelson's murder for hire trial, which is set to begin August 19th, is just around the corner.

The battle lines officially drawn.

The defense now filing two key documents.

SGS was away covering Brian Cobberger last week when they dropped,

which is why we are picking this up tonight.

One of these documents motions is to block prosecutors from telling jurors

exactly what Donna was up to when she was trying to get a one-way ticket to Vietnam.

The other we're going to discuss.

And within hours of these motions being filed, the defense, files a new amended, the state,

I should say, files a new amended witness list.

So tonight we're going to ask, is Donna going to take the stand?

Does she have to take the stand?

Could Wendy turn on her?

What secrets lie inside those jailhouse calls? We're about to find out.

Welcoming to the show, the very best guest in all of true crime. We've got the professor

without Marianne, Joe Petuto, Professor of Merida, University of Nebraska Law School.

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