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When pressed about the lack of phone records from a phone call Garcia allegedly made to Magbanua when the duo spotted Markel’s ex-wife Wendi Adelson — whose family has been implicated in the murder plot — Rivera divulged seemingly new information. 사설토토

“Would you be surprised if I told you they had throw-away phones,” Rivera asked DeCoste.

“So your testimony now is the Katherine Magbanua had a throw-away phone? You have never made that claim,” DeCoste said. “Isn’t this you evolving your story to make up for the mistakes?

“It’s the same answer I gave since Day One. You’re not going to sit there and confuse me,” Rivera replied. “I’m not wrong. Everything I said is nothing but the truth.”

8:30 a.M. | Luis Rivera returns to the stand

Luis Rivera, a convicted gang member who pleaded guilty to his role in Dan Markel's murder, will face more intense questioning from Katherine Magbanua’s attorneys this morning.

Chris DeCoste left off Thursday questioning Rivera about inconsistencies in the 11 times he’s spoken in court or to investigators and what motive he may have to wrongfully accuse his client.

Prosecutors say Rivera’s statements are key to proving Magbanua’s involvement in the murder-for-hire plot.

Luis Rivera, a leader in the North Miami tribe of the Latin Kings gang and a state witness, is sworn into the trial of Katherine Magbanua for the murder of Dan Markel on Thursday, May 19, 2022.

They point to Rivera’s testimony in which he said he heard Magbanua and Dan Markel gunman Sigfredo Garcia discussing the murder while the two men drove from Tallahassee after killing him. He says he was paid in stapled $100 bills delivered by Magbanua the day afterwards.

Rivera told jurors he learned from Garcia they were travelling to Tallahassee to commit a murder after they were about halfway to town from Miami.

But DeCoste has pointed to times he's said otherwise.

Thursday, he played an Oct. 2016 interview with investigators in which Rivera said he and Garcia discussed the murder at his house before leaving Miami.

DeCoste also contends Rivera already had the names and basic information about investigator’s theory of the murder from court records he reviewed when he was arrested months before Magbanua was arrested.

Rivera is a cooperating witness who took a plea agreement in which he received a 19-year sentence to run concurrent with a federal prison sentence in another case for pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

Luis Rivera, a leader in the North Miami tribe of the Latin Kings gang and a state witness, receives help adjusting his chair as he prepares to testify in the trial of Katherine Magbanua for the murder of Dan Markel on Thursday, May 19, 2022.

“You had to advance their theory to get time off. You agreed to government facts,” DeCoste said.