Update on OnlyFans Model Courtney Clenney: Defense Attacks Murder Case Delays

The former OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney is charged of fatally stabbing her lover in their opulent Florida condo in 2022. Her counsel have accused the prosecution of holding up the trial by not advancing it, therefore Courtney Clenney did not appear in court on Tuesday.

Clenney, 28, who used the handle Courtney Tailor on OnlyFans, was arrested in August 2022 on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with the death of Christian “Toby” Obumseli. She has been detained without being given a trial for two years.

Sabrina Puglisi, the attorney for Clenney, said the judge, “I just want to make it clear that this delay has been because of the state.” “It has become impossible for us to proceed. Since this was filed in January, my client has been detained, and we must file petitions to recuse.”

Assistant State Attorney Khalil H. Quinan responded by saying, “We’ve reached out to the defense on numerous occasions to try and schedule depositions of their experts and other witnesses that they’ve listed in their nose for rehearing, to which they’ve said that they will not schedule until Your Honor rules.”

The main focus of Tuesday’s report hearing was admitting evidence.

The state was charged with using a computer against Clenney and her parents, Kim and Deborah Clenney, but those charges were dismissed in July. Clenney’s defense attorneys requested that the state return the laptop.

The three had allegedly gained unauthorized access to Obumseli’s laptop following his death, according to the prosecution. Clenney’s defense lawyer contended that her parents had permission to use the laptop because it was a shared device.

The defense contended on Tuesday that they should have been given more time to file any necessary motions about the laptop, as it was not their primary reason for being in court.

Kim Clenney, her father, used Zoom to view the hearing on Tuesday.

Newsweek has requested comments from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and Clenney’s defense attorneys.

On April 3, 2022, Clenney reported to the police that Obumseli had been stabbed during an argument between them. Clenney, seen in police bodycam footage covered in blood, claimed to have stabbed Obumsel, but she had done it in self-defense.

She said that when the bitcoin investor threw her to the ground, she grabbed a knife and hurled it ten feet in his direction. The medical examiner determined that Obumsel’s cause of death was a knife wound to the right side of his chest, puncturing the subclavian artery, which could not have been caused by a knife thrown from that far away.

According to the Miami Herald, Clenney was detained in August 2022 on suspicion of second-degree murder while receiving treatment for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder in Hawaii.

Following her arrest, Clenney’s assault on Obumseli was captured on camera in the couple’s condo’s elevator. While Obumsel’s family argued that because Clenney is a white lady and Obumseli is a Black guy, she was receiving preferential treatment, her attorney has maintained that Clenney was actually a victim of domestic abuse who defended herself in the deadly stabbing.