MIAMI – An attorney for Instagram model Courtney Clenney pleaded not guilty on her behalf, to murdering her boyfriend, Wednesday in the course of a brief courtroom overall look.
Clenney, 26, aka Courtney Tailor, who has additional than 2 million followers on Instagram, was billed with 2nd-degree murder with a lethal weapon in the killing of Christian Toby Obumseli back in April of this year.
She is at present currently being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Centre.
Prior to her extradition to Miami, Clenney had been held with no bail in Hawaii.
The Miami Point out Attorney’s Place of work introduced a video at the commencing of August showing Clenney attacking Obumseli in an elevator just two months ahead of law enforcement say she stabbed him to demise.
According to the arrest warrant, Clenney claimed she threw the knife at Obumseli from 10 feet absent, but a graphic description from the Professional medical Examiner’s Business discovered Obumseli suffered from a knife wound 3 inches deep. The sort of wound, they say, prompted by forceful strain.
CBS4 discovered that domestic violence was consistent in Obumseli and Clenney’s two-yr romance.
In accordance to the arrest warrant, “A person Paraiso security documented so quite a few incidents of arguing, such as grievances from tenants two flooring higher than, that the building’s administration was transferring to legal action to evict the few.”
Frank Prieto, her law firm, reported she was in Hawaii seeking experienced enable to course of action the trauma professional on the night of the stabbing.
He contends Clenney was defending herself from Obumseli.
