Florida Dentist, Found Guilty of Hiring Gangland Hitmen To Kill His Harvard-Trained Brother in Law, To Appeal His Conviction

Charlie Adelson is currently at a corrections facility holding center while he awaits assignment to a state prison where he will begin his life sentence.

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Charlie Adelson (left) was found guilty of the contract murder of Dan Markel, a law professor at Florida State University. File Photo.

Charlie Adelson, who is the millionaire Florida periodontist found guilty in November of hiring Latin Kings hitmen in 2014 to murder his former brother-in-law, the Harvard-trained law professor Dan Markel, is appealing his conviction.

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