Prosecution begins closing argument in trial over stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee
Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a tech consultant in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco last year
SAN FRANCISCO — Closing arguments began on Monday in the trial of a tech consultant in the 2023 stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, an event that shocked the broader tech community whose members mourned the loss of an entrepreneur they called charismatic and kind.
San Francisco prosecutors say Nima Momeni stabbed Lee three times after hearing that Lee's drug dealer friend plied Momeni's younger sister with GHB and other drugs and sexually assaulted her.
“One person called 911 pleading for help, saying somebody stabbed me,” said Dane Reinstedt, assistant district attorney, adding that the other person never called police or told anyone what happened that night until the trial.
Defense attorneys say Lee, 43, was on a multi-day drug bender of cocaine and ketamine that made him agitated and violent, and that he attacked the defendant with a knife. They said Momeni was forced to use his Krav Maga martial arts skills in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023, after making a “ bad joke " that upset Lee — and did not realize he had stabbed him.
Momeni faces 26 years to life if convicted of murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
Reinstedt on Monday mocked Momeni's defense as he walked jurors through evidence from the trial that began Oct. 14.
He said Momeni was furious with Lee for introducing Khazar Momeni, with whom he was friends, to a drug dealer who gave her GHB, known as a date-rape drug, hours before the stabbing. They say Momeni grilled Lee earlier in the evening about what happened to his sister at the drug dealer’s apartment and sent text messages saying that
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