Defense strategy emerges in Bob Lee murder case

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The attorney for Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old IT consultant accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee, offered a glimpse of her defense strategy on Thursday.

early in the morning of April 4. He was arrested nine days later, based on surveillance video and testimony from a friend of Lee’s, prosecutors said. The friend said Momeni was partying with Lee and Momeni’s sister, Khazar Elyassnia, the day before the stabbing, according to. Momeni later confronted Lee about “whether his sister was doing drugs or anything inappropriate,” the friend told the prosecution.

Momeni’s Thursday arraignment lasted less than an hour in a courtroom packed with family members of both the deceased and the suspect. Lee’s ex-wife, Krista Lee, and Momeni’s sister were both in court. “The defendant drove the victim in the opposite direction of his hotel to what can only be described as a secluded area and stabbed him three times and then fled,” alleged assistant district attorney Omid Talai.

 

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