The homicide trial of OnlyFans mannequin Courtney Clenney is not going to embody key proof prosecutors obtained from her mom’s iCloud … after a Miami-Dade choose dominated in her protection staff’s favor.
Decide Laura Cruz introduced her resolution Wednesday, discovering the prosecutors violated attorney-client privilege once they accessed messages between Courtney’s mother and father and their legal professionals which have been on Deborah Clenney‘s iCloud account.
Keep 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 — have been later arrested and charged with allegedly accessing Obumseli’s laptop.
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In accordance with prosecutors, the household’s messages with the attorneys concerned them making an attempt to guess the password for Obumseli’s laptop computer.
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Nonetheless, these conversations is not going to be utilized in Courtney’s homicide trial … as Decide Cruz dominated they have been protected beneath attorney-client privilege.
The Clenney household’s legal professional noticed the choice as a win for the protection, noting in an announcement … “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 haven’t mentioned whether or not they’ll proceed to pursue the fees towards Courtney’s mother and father.
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As for a way all of this impacts Courtney’s homicide trial — the choose mentioned she’ll have extra to say throughout a Friday listening to.
