The tone of things became more combative Wednesday in the courtroom where Nima Momeni is being tried for the April 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

We've been following the testimony of Khazar Momeni, who first took the stand last Thursday as a witness for the prosecution of her brother, Nima Momeni. As a prosecution witness, she was less than cooperative, and under cross-examination by the defense on Tuesday, she was moreso — although she got called out for simply saying "yes" to all the leading questions that the defense attorney was asking her.

The picture the defense has been trying to paint, much to the dismay of victim Bob Lee's family, is that Lee was acting erratically and aggressively on the day before his murder — including showing text messages in which he was trying to cajole Khazar Momeni to leave the apartment of Jeremy Boivin, who's been identified as Lee's drug dealer. Lee may have had Ms. Momeni's best interests at heart — and had she left, perhaps Lee would still be alive and none of the ensuing mess would have occurred.

But she didn't leave. She temporarily blocked Lee's number on her phone that afternoon. And then he sent her messages on WhatsApp and Telegram like "Get your ass in my Uber. Or never speak to me again."

The defense is using these messages to characterize Lee as aggressive, with the view toward suggesting that, hours later, with no real motive, he was the aggressor in a knife fight with Momeni's brother.

As KRON4 reported from the courtroom Tuesday, defense attorney Saam Zangeneh asked Khazar Momeni, "He wasn’t worried about you being alone with Jeremy, was he? He doesn’t send you a message saying, don’t be alone with this Jeremy guy. Jeremy is no good," to which Momeni replied, "Correct."

"At any time did he make sure you were okay?" Zangeneh asked.

"No," she replied, per Mission Local.

A text message that was sent by Khazar Momeni to Lee later that evening, after she had presumably sobered up and after the alleged sexual assault by Boivin, is a bit confusing, and that confusion was not cleared up in her testimony. She texted him, "Was just expecting more compassion. If you had any respect towards me you wouldn’t talk to me that way." This was around midnight on April 4, two hours and change before Lee would be fatally stabbed.

About 20 minutes later, he was seen arriving at Khazar's condo.

Per Mission Local, the defense also elicited testimony that Khazar Momeni was sexually abused by her father — something she alludes to in an angry text to Nima Momeni.

The testimony on Tuesday took a turn for the combative when Prosecutor Dane Reinstedt began redirect, asking, "Mr. Zangeneh, asked you a lot of questions today. And your answer, I think hundreds of times, was just ‘Yes,’ is that right?"

"I don’t know," was Ms. Momeni's reply.

As NBC Bay Area reports, things continued in this vein Wednesday morning, " with ongoing objections, as well as a number of sidebar conversations between attorneys and the judge."

Reinstedt asked Khazar Momeni about a text message from a couple weeks ago — the one in which Lee's ex-wife Krista Lee was speaking to a friend and referring to her as "the whore of high tower" — which she has described as "intimidating and threatening."

As KTVU reports, Reinstedt was trying to get Momeni to admit that the text was "multiple steps removed" from her and not sent directly to her, so how could it be intimidating or threatening.

Lee's ex-wife Krista left the courtroom this morning and spoke angrily to reporters outside, saying of Ms. Momeni, "She has no right to make herself the victim in this... She can go fuck herself."

Khazar Momeni has not yet fully explained why, if Boivin assaulted her a year and a half ago, she has maintained a relationship with him and continues to buy drugs from him. Prosecutors say she did so just within the last couple of months, and Boivin's attorney has told the media that the two have had an ongoing "voluntary, sexual relationship."

On the stand, Momeni has maintained that she was "scared of" Boivin, and she said last week, "I sometimes go back to my abuser."

On Wednesday morning, the prosecutor Reinstedt also asked Momeni about her admitted LSD use on the afternoon of her assault, wondering whether any of her testimony can be trusted if she was under the influence of a hallucinogen. "How can you be sure what's real and what's not real in what you're experiencing?" Reinstedt asked.

This post will be updated with further reports from the courtroom Wednesday afternoon.

Previously: Sister of Accused Killer Nima Momeni Describes 'Amicable' Night Between Her Brother and Bob Lee