It will be another several days at least before Dalia Dippolito will find out whether a Palm Beach County judge will allow her to return home on house arrest or force her to go to prison as she pursues a second round of appeals in her murder solicitation case.

Lawyers for Dippolito on Thursday made their last pitch for her freedom to Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley in a hearing that brought with it the bombshell revelations of the identify of her son’s father and the fact that he has lived with Dippolito at her mother’s home since shortly after the child’s birth.

The hearing came weeks after Kelley sentenced Dippolito, 34, to 16 years in prison after a jury convicted her for a second time for her 2009 caught-on-camera plot to kill Michael Dippolito, her husband of six months at the time.

Defense attorney Brian Claypool, who lives in California but attended the hearing by phone, outlined for Kelley the arguments that he, Andrew Greenlee and Greg Rosenfeld plan to pursue on appeal. Their three main arguments are that Kelley should not have allowed jurors to hear allegations Dippolito once tried to poison her husband or that she sought a Riviera Beach gang member as a hit man, and that Kelley should have dismissed a juror who allegedly slept through parts of the trial.

Claypool then tried to debunk assistant state attorneys Craig Williams and Laura Burkhart Laurie’s claims that Dippolito would be a flight risk if released from jail specifically because of a recorded jailhouse conversation in which she discussed with her child’s father the drone-aided escape of a South Carolina prison inmate.

"It’s preposterous to claim that Ms. Dippolito was actually contemplating breaking out of jail," Claypool said Thursday of the call, later adding: "Granted it was not smart of her to make a comment like that on a jail call knowing it was recorded. I will concede that point."

Williams in court records listed the caller speaking with Dippolito simply as "James." His true identity, however, was revealed for the first time publicly over objections from Dippolito’s defense team while Dippolito’s mother, Randa Mohammed, testified in hopes of convincing Kelley to grant her daughter an appellate bond.

Before Williams got Mohammed to say she didn’t think her daughter did anything wrong in the case, he started with the identity of the caller.

"James," Williams said as he started his questioning. "What’s his real name?"

After some hesitation and defense objections, Dippolito’s mother said "James" was really Robert William Davis, the 33-year-old father of Dippolito’s 16-month-old son and that he had lived with Dippolito at her mother’s home for about the past year she spent on house arrest before her second conviction.

Davis’ arrest records list several charges and includes decade-old convictions on felony drug and battery charges. His most recent local arrest was in 2011 for a fleeing and eluding case that prosecutors later dropped.

Dippolito has remained guarded about details surrounding her child, and though many behind the scenes had whispered about her pregnancy, the first public announcement that she had given birth came from Claypool in December, at the second trial in her case. When jurors in that trial were unable to reach a unanimous verdict, the stage was set for her third trial.

In that trial in June, a third jury took just 90 minutes to agree she was guilty, an outcome Claypool attributed to Kelley’s decision to allow jurors to hear the claims of Dippolito’s lover, Mohamed Shihadeh, that Dippolito once tried to poison her husband’s iced tea with antifreeze.

"That was the death knell for us, it was the death sentence for our case," Claypool said.

Williams asked Kelley to keep Dippolito behind bars, saying her case actually contained factors more egregious than the case of Wellington polo club founder John Goodman, who like Dippolito received an appellate bond after his first conviction. Goodman, however, was denied that privilege after his second conviction on a DUI manslaughter charge.

"He wasn’t going around trying to manipulate people to get someone killed," Williams said. "Her mind works in a different way. She uses people to control them and manipulate them."

If Kelley grants Dippolito an appellate bond, then she will return to her mother’s Boynton Beach home, where she has already been confined to house arrest since shortly after her 2009 arrest in the plot to have her then husband, Michael, killed.

If Kelley denies Dippolito’s request, she will be transferred to prison to begin serving her 16-year prison sentence. Kelley didn’t say when he would issue the ruling, but said he would do so quickly.

In the meantime, a future hearing is expected on Laurie’s request that Kelley force Rosenfeld to pay for preparations that a state-hired expert had to make in anticipation of a mental health evaluation of Dippolito during her latest trial.

The evaluation was tied to a line of defense Dippolito’s team had contemplated pursuing, but ultimately abandoned, involving claims that Dippolito was open to coercion from Boynton Beach police because she was a battered woman. Laurie in court records said Rosenfeld strung her and the expert along on a weekend during the trial, knowing he would not make Dippolito available for an evaluation.