Wendi Outsmarts Her Mother In Court! Donna Adelson Jury Selection Begins | Case Brief

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

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Watch the full coverage of the live stream on The Emily D. Baker YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/ArCNozStXbQ Donna Adelson's defense attempted to subpoena Wendi Adelson to testify, but her attorneys successfully moved to quash (squash/get rid of) the subpoena. The judge ruled that Wendi Adelson would assert her Fifth Amendment rights if called by the defense, and calling a witness solely to invoke the Fifth Amendment in front of the jury is inappropriate. Wendi Adelson is still subpoenaed by the prosecution, which grants her derivative and use immunity for her testimony. Jury selection began on August 19th, 2025. The process involves individual voir dire, where potential jurors are questioned one-by-one to prevent information about the high-profile case from influencing other jurors. The goal is to find jurors who have not formed an opinion about the case, even if they have heard about it. The judge read a statement of the case and the material part of the indictment to the potential jurors. Donna Adelson is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and solicitation of first-degree murder in the death of Dan Markel on July 18, 2014. These statements are not considered evidence of guilt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back. It's time for a case brief, keeping you in the loop with the cases you care about most, just more briefly.
0:05.2	If you want the full coverage, it's linked in the description below. But for now, let's get into it.
0:10.7	Today, we are here to take a look at the Adelson case. There was a brief hearing yesterday.
0:18.5	There is jury selection starting today. There is lots that we need to do.
0:25.0	So that's what we are going to be doing today. Wendy Adelson's attorneys made a motion to
0:31.3	quash a subpoena from the defense. Remember quash means squash, get rid of. So the defense, Donna Adelson, Wendy's mom,
0:40.0	through their attorneys, made a motion to subpoena Wendy into court to testify for the defense.
0:47.5	Wendy's attorneys made a motion and said, so what we're not going to do is that. We would like
0:51.7	the subpoena yeeded out the window. We're not going to comply.
0:55.4	Remember, Wendy is also subpoenaed by the prosecution. But when Wendy is subpoenaed by the
1:00.9	prosecution, the things that she testifies to in court can't be used against her in any
1:06.6	subsequent prosecution if there is a subsequent prosecution of her.
1:12.2	So there are protections when she is a state's witness.
1:15.6	There are not protections if she is a defense witness and they're going to get into that.
1:19.1	Yeah.
1:19.3	So the issue as to immunity, we cannot confer immunity to her judge.
1:23.9	We agree with that.
1:25.1	We can't.
1:25.8	Right.
1:26.2	But there may be other issues where she could testify to
1:29.6	something that she's not taking a chance, if you will, that she's going to say something that
1:34.9	could be used against her in the future. There could be other matters that are raised in the trial
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