Murder payment delivery
Testimony in the Magbanua retrial described Magbanua delivering payment to Rivera the day after the murder, with a witness (June Umchinda) separately observing stacks of stapled hundred-dollar bills outside a safe. In the Donna Adelson trial, the same payment was characterized as stapled, wet cash bundles delivered to Magbanua as her share of the murder payment. The item spans both trials and three proceedings.
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The post-murder cash delivery, corroborated through Rivera's account and independent witness observation of the physical currency, supports the prosecution's theory that Magbanua received and redistributed proceeds from the contract killing. Its appearance in both the Magbanua retrial and the Donna Adelson trial gives it cross-proceeding significance in establishing the payment chain within the conspiracy record.