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Documents Sealed in Arrest of (Hispanic) Dan Markel Murder Suspect Sigfredo Garcia, Police Give No Details
 TALLAHASSEE, FL - Police say documents in the arrest of the Dan Markel murder suspect have been sealed by a judge and they cannot released any further details on the arrest or the investigation. According to the Tallahassee Police Department, officers with the Hallandale Beach Police Department in Broward County, Florida, arrested Sigfredo Garcia, Wednesday, May 25. Garcia is charged with murder in the first degree, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. He appeared in court Thursday morning. There, Garcia declined a public defender, telling the judge that he did have a lawyer but couldn't remember the name. He claimed to have the attorney's card in his wallet but that it was confiscated. Garcia will remain in jail. Law enforcement has not said when Garcia will be transferred to Leon County. Lieutenant Grady Jordan with the Leon County Sheriff's Office said, "We do not comment on prisoner transportation schedules due to security reasons.
In July of 2014, Tallahassee police were called out to reports of a shooting on Trescott Drive. Upon arrival, officers found Markel, an FSU professor, with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries. Prior to the Wednesday arrest, documents show Garcia was arrested over 20 times in the state of Florida. He has been charged with everything from vehicle theft to possessing explosives.
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- 'Not finished yet': More arrests likely in Markel case - "a murder for hire"
police continue to investigate his killing as a murder for hire, sources close to the investigation say.
Markel, 41, was found with a point-blank gunshot wound to the head on July 18, 2014. He was sitting in the driver's seat of his car in the garage of his Trescott Drive home in Betton Hills. He died at the hospital that night. Police quickly said he was "the intended victim" of the crime.
- Are Hostile Blog Posts Clues to Dan Markel Murder Mystery? - by Forward Staff - July 31, 2014
The prominent Jewish professor even complained that he felt physically threatened by one nasty internet commenter on a now-defunct site.
He had an acrimonious divorce from his law professor ex-wife.
- Police: Dan Markel was intended target - Jul 22, 2014
Dan Markel, 41, was fatally shot in his home. There were no signs of forced entry, police said – leading investigators to conclude Markel knew his killer and may have literally opened his door to his own death. “We do believe that this was not a random act where he just surprised somebody,” Officer David Northway said. "We believe that Mr. Markel, unfortunately, was the intended victim."
- Dan Markel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Eric Markel (October 9, 1972 – July 19, 2014) was a Canadian attorney and legal academic who wrote important works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing, with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. A Toronto native, he was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida in 2014. His law review articles included an argument for the abolition of the death penalty published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He was a consultant for the defense in a federal prosecution in New Jersey involving rabbis accused of extortion by the FBI.
- Canadian Jews * For more information, see History of the Jews in Canada.
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