OnlyFans mannequin Courtney Clenney is making an attempt to show the tables on prosecutors earlier than her homicide trial, asking a Miami-Dade choose to dam the state from utilizing a string of alleged prior violent incidents to color her because the aggressor.
Clenney, the OnlyFans mannequin accused within the 2022 dying of Christian Obumseli, will argue she acted “in self-defense and as a battered partner,” in keeping with newly filed protection motions in Miami-Dade felony courtroom reviewed by Fox Information Digital.
In a July 1 submitting, her legal professionals requested a Miami-Dade choose to permit them to convey up Obumseli’s 2020 Austin arrest warrant if the state opens the door by describing him as peaceable, light, passive or nonviolent.
The warrant, connected to the protection submitting, accused Obumseli of cruelty to a nonlivestock animal, a Class A misdemeanor, in Travis County, Texas. It lists an offense date of Nov. 2, 2020, however doesn’t present how the case was resolved.
Clenney’s legal professionals declare the information behind the warrant describe condo employees discovering Obumseli’s useless canine, Halo, confined inside a kennel in a closet after an condo had been deserted. Investigators allegedly discovered meals within the kennel however no water, and feces surrounding the animal.
A veterinary pathologist concluded the canine’s most certainly explanation for dying was dehydration from water deprivation, and investigators believed Halo had been useless for 5 to seven days earlier than being found, the protection movement says. The submitting additionally claims Obumseli gave “obscure, complicated, and conflicting” accounts in regards to the canine’s dying.
The animal-cruelty battle is a part of a broader pretrial battle over how jurors will see the couple’s risky relationship. The proof battle additionally contains the publicized elevator video prosecutors allegedly need to use to indicate Clenney because the aggressor.
In a separate June 29 submitting, Clenney’s legal professionals argued prosecutors are presenting a deceptive snippet of the February 2022 elevator video. The state, in keeping with the protection, says the video exhibits Clenney placing Obumseli, pulling his hair and persevering with to hit him earlier than the doorways open and he can escape.
However the protection says prosecutors begin the video too late.
Clenney’s legal professionals declare earlier footage exhibits her getting into the elevator from her residential flooring partially clothed, barefoot and with out sneakers, keys, pockets or cellphone. When she reached the foyer, her foot was bleeding, the submitting says.
The protection says Obumseli later entered the elevator, noticed blood on the ground and wiped it away together with his foot.
When Clenney later acquired again into the elevator, Obumseli adopted her, the protection says. Her legal professionals argue she repeatedly pressed elevator buttons in an obvious effort to shut the doorways earlier than he might enter.
As soon as inside, the submitting claims, Obumseli maneuvered round Clenney, reached for the key-fob reader and appeared to place her in a headlock whereas making an attempt to activate the elevator and achieve entry to the condo.
Clenney’s legal professionals say she struck him through the wrestle in an effort to cease him from getting upstairs. Prosecutors have disputed her account, citing the Miami-Dade medical expert’s conclusion that the deadly wound was inconsistent together with her description of what occurred.
Clenney was arrested 4 months later at a rehabilitation facility in Hawaii and charged with second-degree homicide. She has pleaded not responsible. Fox Information Digital has reached out to Clenney’s attorneys for remark.
