Courtney Clenney and her parents, Kim and Deborah Clenney, were in a Miami-dade courtroom Thursday where prosecutors announced they would no longer be pursuing felony charges of unauthorized access to a computer or electronic device.
Authorities said the parents and Clenney had illegally accessed a laptop that they claim belonged to Clenney's boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, after the 27-year-old Obumseli was stabbed to death in the couple's Edgewater condo in April 2022
A Miami social media model accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend and her parents are no longer facing charges related to accessing the slain boyfriend’s laptop.
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The decision comes after Circuit Judge Laura Shearon Cruz last month ruled the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office
violated attorney-client privilege when prosecutors confiscated texts messages and emails between Deborah Lyn and Kim DeWayne Clenney, their daughter and her attorneys in January.
Shearon Cruz granted the Clenneys’ attorney’s motion to exclude the messages in the hacking case because their daughter’s lawyers were also representing them at the time, and the state violated attorney-client privilege.
The Clenney’s lawyer, Jude Faccidimo, argued that prosecutors’ actions demanded a full dismissal of the charges against his client.
“It’s a bedrock principle of privacy the state should never have breached. They entered the defense camp,” Faccidomo said. “All of that taints their prosecution. They targeted our clients Kim and Deborah, for no reason.”
