Judge Rules in Favor of Courtney Clenney on Exclusion of Laptop Evidence in Murder Trial
Judge Excludes iCloud Evidence in Courtney Clenney’s Murder Trial Due to Attorney-Client Privilege Violation
In a significant development, the murder trial of OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney will not include critical evidence obtained from her mother’s iCloud account.
This decision came after Miami-Dade Judge Laura Cruz ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors had violated attorney-client privilege by accessing messages between Clenney’s parents and their attorneys.
The messages in question were related to Courtney Clenney’s defense, including discussions about attempting to guess the password for the laptop of her late boyfriend, Christian Obumseli.
Clenney, who was charged with second-degree murder for Obumseli’s fatal stabbing in April 2022, faced a setback when her parents, Kim and Deborah Clenney, were later charged with allegedly accessing Obumseli’s computer.
Judge Cruz’s ruling determined that these conversations, stored on Deborah Clenney’s iCloud, were protected under attorney-client privilege and therefore inadmissible in Courtney Clenney’s murder trial.
The Clenney family’s attorney praised the decision, stating, “It’s a bedrock principle of privacy the state should never have breached.
They entered the defense camp. All of that taints their prosecution. They targeted our clients Kim and Deborah, for no reason.”
Prosecutors have not yet indicated whether they will pursue the charges against Clenney’s parents further.
Judge Rules in Favor of Courtney Clenney on Exclusion of Laptop Evidence in Murder Trial
