Courtney Clenney
Utilizing Late BF’s Alleged Texts To Battle Homicide Case
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Courtney Clenney says she wasn’t staying silent after allegedly catching beatings from boyfriend Christian Obumseli … she was texting him about them … and now she desires to make use of the messages in her legal trial, through which she’s accused of murdering him.
New courtroom paperwork, obtained by TMZ, reveal the OnlyFans mannequin desires to introduce a string of textual content messages backing up her claims she endured repeated abuse earlier than fatally stabbing Obumseli of their Miami high-rise condominium in 2022.
In accordance with the submitting, one trade got here after Clenney claimed Obumseli punched her within the face in April 2021. Her attorneys say she instantly fired off a textual content accusing him of hitting her “in my face as hard as you could” … whereas Obumseli allegedly brushed it off, responding he was solely making an attempt to maneuver her hand and “really didn’t mean to.”
Clenney argues the messages present a sample of him minimizing what allegedly occurred.
The submitting factors then to a different trade months later in August 2021 … with Clenney allegedly texting Obumseli that he was “punching me in the back” and “attacking me” after one other confrontation. Her legal professionals say the texts have been despatched instantly afterward and corroborate her account of an abusive relationship.
The submitting additionally detailed an alleged incident in Dubai in 2021. She stated Obumseli wished to smoke marijuana, however she didn’t need him to blaze, as a result of strict legal guidelines. She stated he received upset and shoved her forcefully, which she claims fractured her ribs.
Clenney claims he additionally received bodily together with her in January 2022 when he grabbed her arm and precipitated her harm.
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The messages are only one piece of what Clenney’s attorneys need jurors to listen to. Additionally they plan to introduce medical data, photographs, eyewitness testimony, and police and safety reviews, which they are saying doc an escalating sample of bodily and psychological abuse all through the connection.
The textual content messages are the newest proof Clenney’s workforce desires jurors to see as a part of her protection towards the homicide cost. As TMZ beforehand reported, her attorneys lately claimed in courtroom filings Obumseli had been wished on an animal cruelty cost earlier than his loss of life.
Clenney has maintained she solely killed Obumseli out of self-defense … claims we seemed into in “TMZ Investigates: Killer OnlyFans Mannequin: Lethal Love Story.”
Her trial is about to start close to the top of August.
