MIAMI – Instagram design Courtney Clenney, accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend at an condominium they the two shared, appeared in bond court docket Saturday morning.
Clenney, 26, aka Courtney Tailor, who has far more than 2 million followers on Instagram, was charged with 2nd-degree murder with a lethal weapon in the killing of Christian Toby Obumseli back again in April of this calendar year.
She is at the moment staying held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Middle.
Her attorney, Frank Prieto, says there is an concern with the arrest warrant.
“I feel it really is significant that the court be made conscious that that warrant that judge signed that he did locate probable trigger on the other hand, there’s not probable lead to for 2nd-diploma murder… at ideal it can be manslaughter.”
Prieto claims that there have been numerous misstatements in the warrant indicating cherry-picked text messages and alleged bruising.
He says he has proof.
“The detective also indicated there had been no indicators of bruising that was reliable with Ms. Clenney. I was at the homicide device and I have images of her bruising.”
The choose addressed Clenney and said that she’s not the judge who should be making these choices and she wants a judge who knows a lot more about her case to choose above.
“I do not wanna make any sort of ruling and then jeopardize any type of right for ruling you would have in entrance of a decide who may possibly be extra common with the details of the situation… For all all those reasons, I am likely to abstain at this moment from interjecting my impression and let this case to be reset in front of the decide who is going to be managing the situation.”
They’re not generating any other ruling aside from telling Clenney that she’s there since she was arrested on a warrant and at existing is billed with next-degree murder and she will go in front of a judge and have a much more in-depth conversation at that time.
Arrainment is scheduled for September 6th.
Prior to her extradition, Clenney had been held with no bail in Hawaii.
The Miami Point out Attorney’s Office environment introduced a online video at the beginning of August showing Clenney attacking Obumseli in an elevator just two months just before police say she stabbed him to death.
In accordance to the arrest warrant, Clenney claimed she threw the knife at Obumseli from 10 feet absent, but a graphic description from the Clinical Examiner’s Place of work discovered Obumseli endured from a knife wound three inches deep. The kind of wound, they say, induced by forceful tension.
CBS4 uncovered that domestic violence was frequent in Obumseli and Clenney’s two-year relationship.
According to the arrest warrant, “Just one Paraiso protection documented so several incidents of arguing, like complaints from tenants two flooring over, that the building’s management was relocating toward lawful motion to evict the pair.”
Prieto claimed she was in Hawaii seeking expert aid to approach the trauma skilled on the evening of the stabbing.
