SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A San Francisco jury has reached a verdict within the high-profile homicide trial of a tech marketing consultant charged within the stabbing loss of life of Money App founder Bob Lee.
The decision can be learn in courtroom Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.
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Prosecutors argued Momeni focused Lee as a result of he believed his sister, Khazar Momeni, was drugged and sexually assaulted by Jeremy Boivin, a person that Lee had launched her to.
Protection attorneys argued that it was Lee who pulled a knife on Momeni in a drug-fueled rage after Momeni made a foul joke calling into query Lee’s priorities as a father. On the stand, Momeni testified he stated to Lee, “If it had been my final evening on the town, I might be hanging out with my household not (expletive) round in strip golf equipment.”
In its opening statements again in October, the prosecution performed Lee’s 911 name for jurors through which he pleaded for assist 47 occasions. Lee’s household, in courtroom a lot of the trial, stated it was the primary time they’d heard the decision by selection.
Testimony all through the trial was conflicting relying on who was on the stand.
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The jury within the homicide trial of Nima Momeni, who’s suspected of fatally stabbing Money App founder Bob Lee final 12 months, begins deliberations.
SFPD Officer Rosalyn Test was against the law scene investigator who testified early within the trial she didn’t swab the homicide weapon knife for fingerprints due to its rubber deal with – as an alternative, swabbing it just for DNA. One thing that protection attorneys hammered to jurors referred to as into query the police investigation.
Lee’s pal, Bo Mohazzabi, who was with Lee hours earlier than he was murdered, testified that Lee acquired a name from Nima Momeni through which Momeni was interrogating him about what had occurred to his sister earlier that evening. Mohazzabi additionally testified to the alcohol and medicines he noticed Lee consuming that evening and that he was performing as he normally did.
One of the extremely anticipated witnesses was Khazar Momeni who testified Jeremy Boivin gave her GHB (the date price drug) and grabbed her behind. Lee and Mohazzabi had been at Boivin’s place as properly however left. Momeni testified that Mohazzabi was making her really feel uncomfortable. As they left, her pal, Aranza Villegas arrived. Villegas, a witness for the protection, testified that Khazar Momeni was being dramatic that night. Khazar Momeni testified she had recognized Lee for roughly eight years once they met on the non-public social membership The Battery. She additionally described Nima as being near her and a protecting older brother. In textual content messages to her brother proven in courtroom, she stated nobody had touched her. However on the stand, she stated she was utilizing loads of substances on the time and would typically have a tough time recognizing when somebody was hurting her due to her upbringing which included abuse by the hands of her father.
Boivin didn’t testify throughout the trial however was listed on the protection witness checklist. Momeni’s protection attorneys instructed reporters that Boivin has an open drug case and wished immunity to testify, one thing protection attorneys cannot present. In an emailed assertion to ABC7 Information reporter Melanie Woodrow, Boivin’s legal professional, Valery Nechay, referred to as Khazar Momeni’s narrative false and stated she had a voluntary, sexual relationship with Boivin.
On the stand, Nima Momeni testified his sister had an open marriage together with her husband, outstanding plastic surgeon Dino Elyassnia. Momeni stated the couple had guidelines they revered however that when Elyassnia discovered Momeni of their marital mattress with Boivin, he was livid, particularly after Nima Momeni and Elyassnia had rescued Khazar the evening earlier than from Boivin’s place after she referred to as them to say she was drugged and did not know what nation she was in.
The homicide trial of Money App discovered Bob Lee entered its third day Wednesday the place Bo Mohazzabi detailed what occurred hours earlier than the homicide.
SFPD Sergeant Goff testified that he was assigned to do surveillance on Nima Momeni following Bob Lee’s homicide. That included surveillance of Momeni talking with a non-public investigator outdoors of his former legal professional’s workplace. In it, prosecutors stated Momeni could possibly be seen making three distinct stabbing motions reflective of Lee’s three stab wounds. However throughout his testimony, Momeni instructed jurors he wasn’t demonstrating what he did however moderately how Bob Lee did not and did come at him with the knife after he made that unhealthy joke calling into query Lee’s priorities as a father.
Forensic Pathologist Dr. Ellen Moffatt testified Lee’s reason behind loss of life was a number of stab wounds and the style of loss of life was murder.
SFPD Sergeant Dittmer testified that Dr. Elyassnia googled “Find out how to erase an iPhone” days after Lee’s homicide. Additionally, he deleted the search outcomes. SFPD by no means noticed what was on Khazar Momeni’s telephones as a result of the software program used could not get via her passwords.
In making their case, Nima Momeni’s protection attorneys urged that the prosecution’s proof across the knife was insufficient and questioned each the chain of custody and DNA proof, which confirmed that 99% of Momeni’s DNA was on the deal with of the knife. An try at getting a mistrial was denied by the decide. Momeni’s attorneys made a movement for one suggesting Dittmer had revealed to jurors in his testimony that Momeni by no means acquired bond, thereby tainting the jury.
Momeni’s protection crew referred to as Greg Hampikian, a DNA skilled, who testified in regards to the potential for false inclusion or exclusion in DNA testing. He admitted on cross that he acquired $12,000 to testify, plus journey bills and a resort keep.
Khazar Momeni, the sister of the accused killer, describes Bob Lee as “aggressive” and excessive on medication throughout cross-examination in courtroom Tuesday.
Dr. John Marraccini testified in regards to the medication in Bob Lee’s system, together with cocaine and ketamine. He additionally testified that the knife wound to his hip could possibly be that the individual wielding the knife had it directed again at him.
In his testimony, Nima Momeni described hanging out with Lee at his sister’s place after rescuing her from Boivin’s house. He stated Lee had assured him Boivin was a great man. At Khazar’s request, Lee and Momeni left her house. Surveillance video confirmed them in an elevator at Millennium Tower. They bought into Momeni’s car and he testified they had been determining the place to go, the bars had been closed and the strip golf equipment had been not serving alcohol. Momeni stated that Lee spilled a drink in his automotive and that Momeni pulled over in order that Lee might wipe it up. He says Lee discovered his sister’s whippits below the seat and started doing them in addition to making noises. Momeni stated Lee bought out of the automotive and he adopted. That is when Momeni stated he made that unhealthy joke and Lee pulled a knife on him. He stated Lee walked away, not making any noises suggesting he had been stabbed. Momeni picked up the knife and threw it over the Caltrans fence the place investigators later discovered it. The Joseph Joseph knife was the identical model of knife present in Khazar Momeni’s house.
Throughout cross-examination, Momeni instructed prosecutors that when he realized of Bob Lee’s loss of life, he thought it was potential he had been stabbed and killed by another person that evening after the interplay they’d involving a knife. Momeni was requested why he parked his automotive at his mother’s home after Lee’s homicide. He stated it beforehand had a smashed window that was mounted however performing up and so he parked it at his mother’s.
Subsequent on the stand was SFPD Sergeant Steven Pomatto, who additionally offered testimony and an indication of how Momeni might have redirected the knife. On cross-examination, prosecutors requested Pomatto about mendacity about being a Navy SEAL to be able to be part of a specialised group inside SFPD. He stated it was a misunderstanding.
Prosecutors referred to as three rebuttal character witnesses who testified that Bob was a teddy bear who liked hugs and would usually diffuse tense conditions. They stated they’d by no means seen him with a knife.
Throughout closing arguments, Momeni’s protection crew confirmed jurors video of Lee outdoors The Battery with Mohazzabi through which they stated it seemed like Lee was allegedly doing medication off a knife. Protection attorneys urged to jurors this was the homicide weapon and that Lee had introduced the knife, not Momeni. Prosecutors once more emphasised that Lee’s DNA was not on the deal with of the knife.
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