Charlie Adelson is serving life in prison after being found guilty of hiring people to kill his former brother-in-law Dan Markel during a heated custody battle with Adelson's sister Wendi. Markel was a law professor at Florida State University and was shot at close range and killed in his Betton Hills garage in on July 18, 2014 in a professional hit. Prosecutors say Markel's death was a contract killing, in which Charlie Adelson (the brother of Markel's ex-wife Wendi Adelson) and Donna Adelson (Charlie and Wendi's mother) had used Katherine Magbanua as an intermediary to hire Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera for the killing. A secretly recorded conversation between Charlie and Katherine Magbanua, a former girlfriend who dated Adelson and was on the payroll of his dental office came into evidence. During the recording, Adelson allegedly suggested making a one-time 'charity' payment to a so-called blackmailer who went up to his mom and gave her a newspaper article about Markel with $5,000 written on it and a phone number to call. Adelson contends that Leon Circuit Judge Stephen Everett made several reversible errors over the course of the trial, from mistakes during jury selection to improper rulings on the evidence. Adelson claims Everett erred when he denied a defense motion for a change of venue, which his lawyers argued was necessary because of extensive pretrial publicity. The State say Adelson waived his change-of-venue argument when he accepted the jury without objection. Everett asked him point blank at the end of the selection process whether he accepted the jury? 'Yes, your honor,' he replied. The appeal is to be heard by the 1st District Court of Appeal. Besides Charlie Adelson, so far his mother Donna Adelson, his ex-girlfriend Katherine Magbanua and the hitmen, have been convicted in the murder of Markel.