The homicide trial of OnlyFans mannequin Courtney Clenney won’t embrace key proof prosecutors obtained from her mom’s iCloud … after a Miami-Dade choose dominated in her protection workforce’s favor.
Decide Laura Cruz introduced her determination Wednesday, discovering the prosecutors violated attorney-client privilege once they accessed messages between Courtney’s mother and father and their attorneys which had been on Deborah Clenney‘s iCloud account.
Bear in mind, Courtney was arrested and charged with 2nd-degree homicide over the deadly stabbing of boyfriend Christian Obumseli in April 2022. Her mother and father — Kim and Deborah Clenney — had been later arrested and charged with allegedly accessing Obumseli’s laptop.
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In response to prosecutors, the household’s messages with the attorneys concerned them attempting to guess the password for Obumseli’s laptop computer.
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Nevertheless, these conversations won’t be utilized in Courtney’s homicide trial … as Decide Cruz dominated they had been protected beneath attorney-client privilege.
The Clenney household’s lawyer noticed the choice as a win for the protection, noting in an announcement … “It is a bedrock precept of privateness the state ought to by no means have breached. They entered the protection camp. All of that taints their prosecution. They focused our shoppers Kim and Deborah, for no purpose.”
Prosecutors haven’t stated whether or not they’ll proceed to pursue the costs towards Courtney’s mother and father.
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As for a way all of this impacts Courtney’s homicide trial — the choose stated she’ll have extra to say throughout a Friday listening to.
