Escort's Alleged Murder-For-Hire Case To Be Heard By Court
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WEST PALM BEACH (CBSMiami/AP) — An appeals court is set to hear arguments of a former escort accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband.
Florida's 4th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed late last week to consider Dalia Dippolito's argument that her case be thrown out because of alleged misconduct by police investigators. No hearing date is set.
Dippolito's lawyers argue detectives pushed her former lover, Mohamed Shihadeh, to make her meet with an undercover officer posing as hit man even though Shihadeh wanted out of the investigation. The lawyers say Shihadeh threatened Dippolito with a gun when she balked at the meeting.
The video of Dippolito's meeting with the pretend hit man became part of a "Cops" television show episode.
Dippolito's scheduled May trial will be postponed pending the ruling.
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