Cash App founder Bob Lee's accused killer Nima Momeni just pleaded not guilty
Tech consultant Nima Momeni pleaded not guilty on Thursday to San Francisco prosecutors' charge of murder inMomeni entered the plea at an arraignment in San Francisco state court,
by the San Francisco Chronicle. The hearing is one of the first steps in the early stages of the court proceedings.that Momeni was charged with murder"with an allegation that he personally used a deadly weapon in the commission of this crime," according to a statement then by San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. That development had followed a more than weeklong hunt by police for a suspect in Lee's death.
It is very common — almost the default — for defendants to plead not guilty early in a case, when the defense is still trying to learn more information from prosecutors, said Lauren Johnson, a defense attorney in Irvine, California. Johnson isn't involved in the case, and spoke generally. "It would be nearly unheard of, with a lawyer and with these types of charges, for anyone to walk into their arraignment and enter a guilty plea, because the defense doesn't know what the evidence is against the suspect, or what the punishment would be," Johnson said.
Arraignment hearings are usually when defendants formally hear the charges against them, and enter a plea. Defendants also have the opportunity to ask the court to set bail.
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