MIAMI – An evidentiary hearing might be held Tuesday forward of the trial of a social media model accused of murdering her boyfriend.
Courtney Clenney, 26, aka Courtney Tailor, who has greater than 2 million followers on Instagram, is charged with second-degree homicide with a lethal weapon in the stabbing death of Christian Toby Obumseli at One Paraiso again in April of this 12 months.
She has pleaded not responsible.
During Tuesday’s hearing, prosecutors will probably current the proof they’ve towards Clenney. That will assist the choose determine what the jury can and may’t see throughout her trial.
That proof contains crime scene photographs, the homicide weapon, and the timeline earlier than and after she stabbed Obumseli.
Prosecutors may introduce an elevator video that reveals Clenney hitting Obumseli two months earlier than his death. They will probably argue it reveals that she was abusive in direction of him. Clenney’s lawyer mentioned the video is irrelevant and that she was the one being abused.
CBS4 realized that home violence was fixed in Obumseli and Clenney’s two-year relationship.
According to the arrest warrant, “One Paraiso security documented so many incidents of arguing, including complaints from tenants two floors above, that the building’s management was moving towards legal action to evict the couple.”
Clenney’s trial is ready for December nineteenth.
