SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Stabs His Own Attorney, Then Attacks His Prosecutor, In Courtroom Outburst It was a wild scene at a Contra Costa County courthouse Monday, as a man on trial for murder allegedly busted his restraints, stabbed his own attorney with a pen, and attacked his prosecutor for good measure too.
SF News Accused Bob Lee Killer Can Get Fair Trial In San Francisco, Judge Rules Nima Momeni's defense lawyers' first gambit, to get his trial moved out of San Francisco, has not paid off, with the judge in the case ruling Friday on the change of venue request.
SF News Scott Peterson Will Be Back In Court (Virtually) on Tuesday In Redwood City for New Hearing In 2002 Murder Case Convicted murderer Scott Peterson has, for some reason, attracted the attention of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, and the case against him in the 2002 murder of his wife Laci Peterson is getting a new hearing this week in San Mateo County.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Girlfriend The East Bay man arrested last month for the murder of Capitola resident Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, who was his girlfriend, was arraigned Thursday in Santa Cruz County.
SF News Man Who Beheaded Ex-Girlfriend In San Carlos Receives Maximum Sentence, Which Is 25 to Life A Hayward man who was convicted in November in the 2022 slaying of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro was sentenced Tuesday morning to 25 years to life in prison, the maximum allowable under California law.
SF News Suspect In Crissy Field Murder Heard In Jailhouse Phonecall Saying Victim 'Deserved' to Be Killed The 20-year-old sex worker who was arrested in November for a murder that took place in the Crissy Field parking lot was allegedly heard confessing in a jailhouse call to her mother, and she sounded remorseless about the crime.
SF News Legal Team for Nima Momeni Gets Further Delay for Change-of-Venue Hearing A San Francisco judge was supposed to hear arguments Thursday about whether or not accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni can get a fair trial in San Francisco, or whether the trial should be moved to another county. But that didn't happen.
SF News Pair Arrested In 2019 Suitcase Murder In San Francisco Finally Convicted Two people who were apprehended fairly quickly following a grisly torture and murder case that took place inside a mid-Market apartment in 2019 are finally facing sentencing following a jury verdict.
SF News The L.A. Innocence Project Is, For Some Reason, Taking Up Scott Peterson's Case One of the most infamous murder cases in NorCal of the last few decades, that of Laci Peterson in 2002, is getting a fresh look from the L.A. Innocence Project, even though it seems like they could be spending their time and energy on more worthy — and more likely innocent — people in prison.
SF News Suspect In Kimberly Wong Murder, Scott Fisher, Appears In Court as More Details Emerge In Case The boyfriend of Kimberly Wong, the 27-year-old tech worker who was killed in her Presidio Heights apartment just after Thanksgiving, made another court appearance Wednesday, and we are now learning more about the case against him.
SF News Former UC Davis Student Accused In April Stabbings Deemed Competent to Stand Trial The 22-year-old man who was arrested in connection with three stabbings in Davis last spring, two of them fatal, who has been in mental health treatment since shortly after his arrest, has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
SF News Potential DUI Charges Delayed Against Sister of Nima Momeni Due to Toxicology Report The bizarre sidebar story to the Bob Lee murder trial, in which the sister of the prime suspect was arrested for a DUI last month in the Tenderloin that allegedly involved plowing into several parked cars and might have involved whip-its at 11 a.m. on a Monday, is in a holding pattern.
SF News Ahead of Arraignment, Prosecutors Say Young Tech Worker Was Fatally Stabbed By Boyfriend Following his arrest last week, 29-year-old Scott Fisher has now been formally charged with the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong, and Fisher's arraignment was set for Monday afternoon.
SF News 29-Year-Old Boyfriend Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering Kimberly Wong The 29-year-old boyfriend of 27-year-old tech product designer Kimberly Wong, who investigators believe was killed last week in a domestic violence incident, is now in custody for the murder.
SF News Attorneys for Bob Lee Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Look to Move Trial Out of San Francisco In a court hearing Thursday in which a trial date was expected to be set for murder suspect Nima Momeni, the defense team has filed a motion for a change of venue.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni's Sister Arrested In Alleged DUI Crash The sister at the heart of the murder case against Nima Momeni, in which Cash App founder Bob Lee was killed in downtown San Francisco in April, was caught up in an alleged crime of a different nature on Monday morning in SF.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
SF News Davis Stabbing Suspect Will Go to Mental Health Facility After DA Drops Challenge to Competency The suspect in a series of late-April stabbings in the city of Davis was undergoing a jury-based hearing to assess his competency, but the district attorney has instead dropped a challenge to an earlier competency assessment and the hearing has ended.
SF News Judge Rejects Defense Theories In Bob Lee Stabbing; Date-Rape Drug Allegation Emerges; Nima Momeni to Proceed to Trial Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old tech entrepreneur who is the sole suspect accused of the April 4 murder of Bob Lee in San Francisco, is headed to trial on the murder charge following a two-day preliminary hearing.
SF News New Attorneys for Accused Killer Nima Momeni Begin Hearing By Questioning the Handling of the Murder Weapon Monday's preliminary hearing in the trial of Bob Lee's accused killer Nima Momeni saw his new defense team questioning a key piece of evidence, the kitchen knife that prosecutors say was the murder weapon and that Momeni disposed of near the crime scene.
SF News Accused Bob Lee Killer Nima Momeni Due Back In Court Monday, More Evidence May Emerge As the multiply delayed preliminary hearing in the Bob Lee murder case is finally set to begin Monday, we learn there may be some new evidence from the prosecution — perhaps about motive — that will be made public.
SF News Nima Momeni's Preliminary Hearing Has Been Delayed Again, Until July 31 Somewhat predictably, since the suspect in the April 4 stabbing of CashApp founder Bob Lee has just recently obtained new legal counsel, the preliminary hearing in the case has been delayed another six weeks.
SF News Dana Rivers, Convicted In 2016 Triple Murder In Oakland, Seeks New Trial Dana Rivers, the trans rights activist and alleged biker gang "enforcer" who was convicted in November of killing two women and their son in a gruesome 2016 triple murder, has launched a last-ditch effort to avoid a spending the rest of her life in prison.
SF News Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni Was Arrested In 2005 Stabbing Incident Evidence favorable to the prosecution continues to be collected in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, the sole suspect in the April 4 killing of Bob Lee in downtown San Francisco. And the latest is a case of violence from 18 years ago.
SF News Prolifically Violent MS-13 Gang Member From SF's Mission District Convicted, Faces Life In Prison In a trial that followed over a dozen other convictions of his MS-13 associates, Elmer Rodriguez, a.k.a Gordo, was convicted in federal court this week on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, and racketeering conspiracy.
