The case of OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney, accused of murdering her boyfriend Christian Obumseli, took a new turn in court on Wednesday, June 26.
The court hearing focused on the admissibility of a key piece of evidence. The 28-year-old influencer, charged with the murder of Obumseli in their Miami high-rise on April 3, 2022, was seen in a Miami courtroom wearing a red jumpsuit.
During the hearing, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Laura Shearon Cruz ruled on whether to exclude crucial evidence related to the suspect’s parents.
“I am granting the defendant’s motion, in part as a motion to exclude [evidence], and I’m granting it,” Cruz stated.
The judge sided with Clenney’s defense regarding a computer hacking case involving her and her parents, determining that prosecutors had breached a legal principle in obtaining the evidence.
Jude Faccidomo, an attorney for Clenney, commented on the ruling: “They have entered the defense camp and invaded the attorney-client privilege. The next steps for the state’s attorney office are to dismiss the charges against my client and recuse themselves from the homicide case against Courtney Clenney.”
Clenney faces a second-degree murder charge for the fatal stabbing of Obumseli in their upscale Edgewater condo. Earlier this year, prosecutors also charged her parents, Kim Dewayne and Deborah Clenney, along with Courtney, for hacking Obumseli’s laptop.
State attorneys accessed Dewayne’s iCloud account, where investigators found messages showing the family working with defense attorneys to guess passwords to access the laptop after Obumseli’s death. Eventually, they succeeded.
Defense attorneys for the parents argued that the computer was shared between Clenney and Obumseli and that the parents were authorized to access it. While the defense attorneys were not charged, all three Clenney family members were.
Faccidomo stated, “What happened was, they read through attorney-client privilege communications. That’s not proper. That’s a violation of their privacy rights, and because of that, Judge Cruz excluded any evidence they discovered because of it.”
After a lengthy battle, defense attorneys succeeded on Wednesday as Cruz ruled the messages would be excluded from the homicide case.
The next hearing in this case is scheduled for sometime in August.
