SF News Verdict Reached In Bob Lee Murder Trial, Won't Be Read Until Tuesday Morning After a seventh day of deliberations, the jury said they had reached a verdict Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the killing of Bob Lee in April 2023. But the verdict won't be read until Tuesday morning.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Musician Theobald Lengyel Gets 25 Years to Life for Girlfriend's Murder Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel was sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in Santa Cruz Superior Court for the December 2023 murder of Alice “Alyx” Herrmann at her home in Capitola.
SF News Bob Lee Murder Trial: Jury Shown Controversial Video of Momeni Appearing to Reenact Stabbing The jury in the trial of Nima Momeni were shown a controversial video Monday that may or may not help the prosecution's case, but which the defense argued vigorously against being allowed.
SF News LA District Attorney Gascón Unveils New Evidence That May Reopen Menendez Brothers Case New evidence has come to light in the notorious Menendez brothers case, including a one-time member of the band Menudo giving sworn claims of sexual abuse by the brothers’ father, and LA District Attorney George Gascón may reopen the case.
SF News SF Jury Convicts Two for 2017 Murder of Photographer on Twin Peaks A brutal 2017 murder case that stemmed from a robbery of a photographer who was shooting pictures of the under-construction Salesforce Tower has finally come to a close, with the two suspects convicted more than seven years later.
SF News Bombshell Testimony Comes Three Weeks Into Murder Trial of Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel has been on trial since September 4 for the December 2023 murder of his girlfriend, Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, in Capitola. And this week, a witness took the stand who only reached out to prosecutors after reading about testimony in the trial so far.
SF News In Murder Trial of Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni, Defense to Claim Lee Had 'Flash of Aggression' The much anticipated trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee is getting ready to begin, and the defense team has laid out more of their argument for why they say their client is innocent.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped for One Housemate In Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler, Trial Proceeding for Two Others A judge has ruled that a trial can proceed against two men who were charged, along with two others, in connection with the August 2023 death of a toddler due to fentanyl exposure.
SF News Ahead of Trial, Prosecutors Reveal Video They Have Showing Nima Momeni Acting Out Stabbing of Bob Lee Prosecutors and defense attorneys laid out their strategies in court filings Friday in the upcoming murder trial of Nima Momeni, and more information has come to light about each side's case.
SF News As Accused Killer Nima Momeni Heads to Trial Next Month, Lawyers Debate Witnesses We are just three weeks and change from one of the highest-profile murder trials in recent memory in San Francisco, that of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee.
SF News Plea Deal Comes In Case of Murdered Oakland Maintenance Man; Trial to Come For Second Suspect A Sacramento man has pleaded no contest to the January 2023 murder of Julio Chavez-Montoya, a 63-year-old building maintenance man who lived in a downtown Oakland office tower.
SF News Former Go-Go Dancer and Adult Film Performer Sentenced In 2017 Killing of Boyfriend In Hayes Valley A man who was accused of murdering his boyfriend inside the apartment they shared in Hayes Valley in late 2017 has taken a plea deal, and he's been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
SF News Suspect In San Mateo Stabbing of Woman That Was Streamed on Facebook Deemed Incompetant to Stand Trial The Pacifica man accused in the July 2023 stabbing of a woman inside an apartment in San Mateo has been declared mentally incompetant to stand trial.
SF News Judge Overturns 33-Year-Old Conviction of Death Row Inmate, Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Decide His Fate A man convicted in 1991 in a murder-for-hire plot may walk free soon, after a federal judge overturned the conviction due to racially-motivated prosecutorial misconduct.
SF News Convicted Teen Killer of Maddy Middleton Denied Freedom By Judge, Will Stand Trial to Determine His Fate Adrian "A.J." Gonzalez, who was 15 when he confessed to the sexual assault and killing of his 8-year-old neighbor Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in 2015 in a Santa Cruz apartment complex where they both lived with their parents, never stood trial for the murder. But that is about to change.
SF News Alameda Quintuple Murder Suspect Faces Victims' Family In Court 54-year-old Shane Killian, the father of two small boys who stands accused of killing his sons, his wife, and his wife's parents in a domestic violence rampage in Alameda two weeks ago, made his second court appearance on Monday.
SF News One of the Two Marin County Men Imprisoned for a Cop Killing In Rome Released to House Arrest After Appeal The long, complicated saga of the two young men from Marin County who found themselves at the center of an international crime story five years ago has resolved, in part, for one of them — but this isn't making the victim's wife very happy.
SF News UC Berkeley Custodian Accused of Killing Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Will Stand Trial There's an update in a brutal stabbing case from March 2023 in which a beloved member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and Olivet Oakland Church choir was brutally killed in his own apartment.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Musician to Stand Trial For Girlfriend's Murder as More Details of the Crime Emerge In Court A preliminary hearing has concluded, and a Santa Cruz County judge has concluded that there is enough evidence to put 54-year-old Theodore Lengyel of El Cerrito on trial for the murder of a Capitola woman he was in a relationship with.
SF News Three Take Plea Deals In 2021 Kidnap and Murder Case In Alameda County Three men are getting relatively lenient sentences in a case involving a home-invasion robbery, and a victim who was bound, gagged, taunted, and strangled before being dumped by the side of a road.
SF News Guilty Verdict Reached In Pleasanton Murder Case Stemming From Domestic Violence A jury in Alameda County on Monday reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Joseph Roberts, who was accused in the killing of his girlfriend, 27-year-old Rachel "Imani" Buckner — whose dismembered torso was discovered on the Alameda shoreline last summer.
SF News Family of Pier 39 Breakdancer Who Was Killed By Girlfriend Outraged That She Is Getting Released From Jail The family of a San Francisco man who was fatally stabbed by his girlfriend in 2022 is angry that she is already getting released from prison, after just a year and a half behind bars.
SF News Oakland Murder Case to Test Notion of Guilt By Provocation, After Home Invasion Suspect Is Killed One of two men who allegedly committed a home-invasion robbery is being tried in Alameda County for the murder of his accomplice, even though the person who pulled the trigger was the homeowner they were allegedly robbing.
SF News Four People, Including Two Housemates, Now Charged With Murder In Fentanyl-Overdose Death of San Jose Toddler Two alleged drug dealers have now been charged with murder in connection with the August 2023 death of 18-month-old Winter Rayo, whose parents were also charged with murder.
SF News Second Defendant In June 2020 Shooting of Federal Officers In Oakland Sentenced to Life In Prison Robert Alvin Justus Jr., the self-identified "Boogaloo boy" with a "bloodlust for police," was sentenced last week in federal court after his 2023 conviction for the murder of Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood.
