Lawyers for OnlyFans model charged in Miami murder won’t try to dig up boyfriend’s body

Lawyers for the OnlyFans product accused of murdering her boyfriend in Miami will not search for to exhume the slain man’s physique.

They designed the announcement Friday just after originally inquiring a decide to compel the Professional medical Examiner’s Office environment to allow a protection specialist to examine the body of Christian “Toby” Obumseli. But defense lawyers for Courtney Clenney withdrew the ask for Friday after studying — from a Miami Herald posting — that Obumseli has by now been buried in his house state of Texas.

Immediately after a quick court docket hearing on Friday, protection lawyers Frank Prieto and Sabrina Puglisi told reporters they had been not inclined to look for a courtroom purchase to dig up Obumseli’s overall body.

“If the gentleman is previously buried, we do not want to disturb that,” Prieto reported.

Clenney, 26, is billed with murder in the April 3 stabbing dying of Obumseli within the couple’s luxurious superior-increase Miami condominium. The situation of the social-media influencer, who boasted thousands and thousands of followers on Instagram and OnlyFans, has drawn throughout the world media focus.

Clenney continues to be jailed in Hawaii awaiting extradition to deal with demo in Miami-Dade County.

Prosecutors have painted Clenney as the aggressor in opposition to the unarmed Obumseli, expressing she had a prolonged history of attacking him throughout their stormy romantic relationship.

Clenney, nevertheless, has claimed self-protection in fatally stabbing Obumseli. Prieto reported she was the accurate domestic-violence sufferer.

“The evidence is likely to show in this circumstance that she was harassed, gaslighted and Mr. Obusmeli would by no means depart her by yourself, would check out and eavesdrop on all of her conversations” Prieto claimed after the hearing.

Also on Friday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Diana Vizcaino stated she will set a listening to, sometime in the next few of months, to take into account restricting the launch of evidence in the case.

Prieto questioned a judge to set a listening to to limit the launch of “discovery,” or evidence in the circumstance, ripping State Lawyer Katherine Fernandez Rundle for releasing surveillance movie of Clenney attacking Obumseli in an elevator two months just before the killing.

In Florida, considerably of the state’s evidence is usually general public document after it is been offered to protection attorneys. Sure evidence, these kinds of as confessions, autopsy pictures and lender information, are generally exempt from community disclosure.

He questioned that the judge seal all evidence in the case till she can review it “to figure out their relevance, probative worth, probable prejudice and admissibility.”

The Miami Herald is objecting to the evaluate, indicating it was overbroad. In opposing the go, Herald legal professional Scott Ponce wrote it was “implausible to suggest that general public disclosure of the discovery will taint the citizens of a county as huge as Miami-Dade County to this kind of a diploma that it will be impossible to empanel an impartial jury for a trial of this action.”

The Point out Attorney’s Office environment is also objecting, declaring the ask for was untimely. Prosecutor Khalil Quinan, in a reaction, wrote that Prieto himself has given numerous statements to the push whilst seeking to limit lawful general public information disclosures to the push. Quinan named the endeavor “another attention-grabbing hard work by a media hungry defendant.”