Sarah Kathryn Dugan
Second-chair prosecutor who delivered opening statements and anchored financial, cell-site, and motive evidence threads across all three Markel murder-for-hire conspiracy trials.
About
Dugan's three consecutive opening statements and recurring examination of the cell-site and financial witnesses make her proceedings a primary source for the prosecution's core circumstantial case theory across the full Markel conspiracy archive; the continuity of witnesses across trials makes her examination record useful for tracking how the state's evidentiary framing evolved from the Magbanua trial through the Donna Adelson trial.
Trial Record (50)
KM Magbanua Retrial May 18, 2022 – May 27, 2022
Trial Summary
Second chair for the prosecution, Dugan delivered the opening statement and conducted the State's direct examinations of the rental records, cell site, financial, and social-network witnesses, as well as the cross-examination of defendant Katherine Magbanua.
Appearances (21)
CA Charlie Adelson Oct 26, 2023 – Nov 6, 2023
Trial Summary
Second-chair prosecutor who delivered the prosecution's opening statement and conducted direct and redirect examinations of Clariza Lebredo, Erika Johnson, Mary Hull, and Christopher Corbitt, anchoring the state's financial and cell-site evidence threads across multiple trial days.
Appearances (8)
DA Donna Adelson Aug 22, 2025 – Sep 4, 2025
Trial Summary
Second-chair prosecutor who delivered the state's opening statement and conducted direct and redirect examinations of prosecution witnesses on financial, cell-site, and motive evidence, as well as cross-examinations of defense witnesses on the relocation dispute, post-verdict flight conduct, and Donna Adelson's stated involvement in her daughter's custody proceedings.