SF News Former UC Davis Student Accused In April Stabbings Deemed Competent to Stand Trial The 22-year-old man who was arrested in connection with three stabbings in Davis last spring, two of them fatal, who has been in mental health treatment since shortly after his arrest, has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
SF News Potential DUI Charges Delayed Against Sister of Nima Momeni Due to Toxicology Report The bizarre sidebar story to the Bob Lee murder trial, in which the sister of the prime suspect was arrested for a DUI last month in the Tenderloin that allegedly involved plowing into several parked cars and might have involved whip-its at 11 a.m. on a Monday, is in a holding pattern.
SF News Ahead of Arraignment, Prosecutors Say Young Tech Worker Was Fatally Stabbed By Boyfriend Following his arrest last week, 29-year-old Scott Fisher has now been formally charged with the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong, and Fisher's arraignment was set for Monday afternoon.
SF News 29-Year-Old Boyfriend Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Kimberly Wong The 29-year-old boyfriend of 27-year-old tech product designer Kimberly Wong, who investigators believe was killed last week in a domestic violence incident, is now in custody for the murder.
SF News Attorneys for Bob Lee Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Look to Move Trial Out of San Francisco In a court hearing Thursday in which a trial date was expected to be set for murder suspect Nima Momeni, the defense team has filed a motion for a change of venue.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni's Sister Arrested In Alleged DUI Crash The sister at the heart of the murder case against Nima Momeni, in which Cash App founder Bob Lee was killed in downtown San Francisco in April, was caught up in an alleged crime of a different nature on Monday morning in SF.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
SF News Davis Stabbing Suspect Will Go to Mental Health Facility After DA Drops Challenge to Competency The suspect in a series of late-April stabbings in the city of Davis was undergoing a jury-based hearing to assess his competency, but the district attorney has instead dropped a challenge to an earlier competency assessment and the hearing has ended.
SF News Judge Rejects Defense Theories In Bob Lee Stabbing; Date-Rape Drug Allegation Emerges; Nima Momeni to Proceed to Trial Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur who is the sole suspect accused of the April 4 murder of Bob Lee in San Francisco, is headed to trial on the murder charge following a two-day preliminary hearing.
SF News New Attorneys for Accused Killer Nima Momeni Begin Hearing By Questioning the Handling of the Murder Weapon Monday's preliminary hearing in the trial of Bob Lee's accused killer Nima Momeni saw his new defense team questioning a key piece of evidence, the kitchen knife that prosecutors say was the murder weapon and that Momeni disposed of near the crime scene.
SF News Accused Bob Lee Killer Nima Momeni Due Back In Court Monday, More Evidence May Emerge As the multiply delayed preliminary hearing in the Bob Lee murder case is finally set to begin Monday, we learn there may be some new evidence from the prosecution — perhaps about motive — that will be made public.
SF News Nima Momeni's Preliminary Hearing Has Been Delayed Again, Until July 31 Somewhat predictably, since the suspect in the April 4 stabbing of CashApp founder Bob Lee has just recently obtained new legal counsel, the preliminary hearing in the case has been delayed another six weeks.
SF News Dana Rivers, Convicted In 2016 Triple Murder In Oakland, Seeks New Trial Dana Rivers, the trans rights activist and alleged biker gang "enforcer" who was convicted in November of killing two women and their son in a gruesome 2016 triple murder, has launched a last-ditch effort to avoid a spending the rest of her life in prison.
SF News Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni Was Arrested In 2005 Stabbing Incident Evidence favorable to the prosecution continues to be collected in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, the sole suspect in the April 4 killing of Bob Lee in downtown San Francisco. And the latest is a case of violence from 18 years ago.
SF News Prolifically Violent MS-13 Gang Member From SF's Mission District Convicted, Faces Life In Prison In a trial that followed over a dozen other convictions of his MS-13 associates, Elmer Rodriguez, a.k.a Gordo, was convicted in federal court this week on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, and racketeering conspiracy.
SF News Momeni Fires Defense Attorney Paula Canny (Or She Quit), Hires Miami-Based Persian Attorney Who Has Not Reviewed Case Welp, the legal circus shows no signs of quieting in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, and what was supposed to be a preliminary hearing in the case Tuesday has become another reason for delay: defense attorney Paula Canny asked to be removed from the case.
SF News Newly Released Images In Bob Lee Murder Case Show Lee With Suspect In Elevator, and Getting Into Suspect's Car Murder suspect Nima Momeni made another court appearance today, and agreed to schedule his preliminary hearing for May 30, the day after Memorial Day. And we now know that Momeni's attorney plans to argue this was a case of self-defense.
SF News Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni Pleads Not Guilty, Will Not Be Getting Bail The arraignment of Nima Momeni happened Thursday morning after five weeks and three separate delays requested by his attorney, and he entered a plea of not guilty to the April 4 stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
SF News North Bay Man Charged as an Accessory In Death of Two-Year-Old Found Buried In Napa County Gets Released on Bail There have been some new developments in the case of the murder of two-year-old Ja'mari Madkins, whose lifeless body was found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County back in December.
SF News Defense Attorney Paula Canny Apologizes For 'Cavalier' Comments About Bob Lee's Drug Use The criminal defense attorney hired by the family of murder suspect Nima Momeni, who's been described by colleagues using various attack-dog metaphors, has issued an apology for some incendiary comments about victim Bob Lee earlier this week. But this may just be indicative of her style.
SF News Friend Says Accused Killer Nima Momeni and Sister Were 'Guard Dogs for Each Other' Following a brief court appearance Tuesday at which his attorney indicated that Nima Momeni intends to plead not guilty at a rescheduled arraignment next week, a few more details have come out about Momeni's relationship with his sister and his lack of real connection to victim Bob Lee.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Was Cited For Domestic Battery Last Year Reporters around the Bay are trying to dig up whatever they can to continue reporting on the murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and the latest tidbits came from Emeryville police.
SF News Attorney for 'Techie' Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Tries to Cast Doubt on First-Degree Murder Charge — But There's Video The crazy insane murder case of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, the details of the prosecution's evidence for which were all laid bare on Friday, will no doubt make for some gripping courtroom drama, whenever the trial does take place.
SF News Paul Flores Gets 25 Years to Life For Kristin Smart Murder Paul Flores, who was convicted last fall in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was sentenced Friday and received 25 years to life.
SF News Alleged Bay Area Serial Killer David Misch May Face One or Two Trials For Killings of Two Women and a Nine-Year-Old Girl A court is set to decide if 61-year-old David Misch, accused in two separate Alameda County murder cases from the mid-1980s, will stand trial for both cases simultaneously, or if they will be severed.
