In the murder trial of Nima Momeni, the man charged with fatally stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee in 2023, jurors in San Francisco started their second day of deliberations on Thursday.
A day after initially getting the case, the jury resumed deliberations at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday after obtaining some last-minute directions from the trial’s judge.
Momeni faces a sentence of 26 years to life in prison for the charge of first-degree murder. Jurors are also deliberating about manslaughter and second-degree murder.
The jurors were instructed by the judge that any verdict they reach must be unanimous.
Momeni is charged by the state with fatally stabbing tech executive Lee early in the morning of April 2023 in a lonely area of San Francisco’s East Cut neighborhood.
As they assess Nima Momeni’s fate, jurors are taking into account thousands of pieces of evidence and 21 days of occasionally acrimonious testimony.
Deliberations began a day after Momeni’s lawyers concluded their final argument with a shocking video tape they said showed Lee using the same knife that killed him hours later to snort cocaine outside a private club.
Krista, Lee’s ex-wife, refuted the allegations on Wednesday morning by offering a different explanation for what her ex-husband might have been holding outside the Battery.
“He was not holding a knife. The collar stay was made of metal. Bob has been using it for years. Holding her thumb and fingers four or five inches apart, Lee remarked, “It’s about yay long.” “And I should only hope that in the evidence it will come up.”
Since it was never brought up in court, it is unlikely that the jury will consider the idea that the object in Bob Lee’s palm might be a collar stay.
Defense lawyers said it was all part of their plan when asked why they only raised their idea that Lee was seen on camera brandishing the knife hours earlier at the end of the trial.
“That’s a huge moment in the case, because it shows he actually had possession of what everyone in that room knows is a knife,” defense lawyer Bradford Cohen stated.
“A collar pin was not discovered at the scene. She is fabricating proof. “Because they would have discovered the collar pin on him if it was the collar pin,” defense lawyer Saam Zangeneh continued.
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