Nima Momeni
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57 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Nima Momeni’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And unfortunately for Amanda, Andrea, it's not a case that a lot of members of the general public will let go either. Yeah.
And she doesn't deserve that. And no one really remembers the name of the victim that easily, Meredith Kircher. You can't call that up as easily as you can call up Foxy Knoxie.
It's been interesting to retrieve some of these memories again. Yeah.
Prosecutors have been arguing that Nima stabbed Bob Lee because he was angry that his sister Kazar may have been sexually assaulted by one of Bob's friends. Bob met up with Kazar and Nima later that evening at her apartment. The prosecutor alleged that Nima took a paring knife from the kitchen. He then drove Bob to his secluded area underneath the Bay Bridge and stabbed him.
And if that sounds confusing, it is. I mean, everyone was also drinking and doing drugs throughout the day.
Yeah, it's interesting, Andrea. Since his attorneys are arguing self-defense and there are no other eyewitnesses to this incident, the only person who can explain what happened on April 4th is the defendant himself. And you've covered cases, so have I, over my time at Dateline. It's pretty rare for this to happen. In his telling, Nima decided to call people who had been with Gazar earlier.
So Nima ended up calling Bob Lee. And he told the jury the call actually calmed him down and he felt reassured. He was disappointed in his sister and he believed she was probably being dramatic to get attention.
That's right. So on the stand, Nima talked through the videos of him and Bob leaving together. And he's explaining they were chummy that night. It isn't until Nima pulls over to that area under the Bay Bridge that they end up in a bit of a blind spot. And the cameras that catch them are not super high quality.
Yes. He says that Bob spilled a beer in the car and he wanted to clean it up. So he pulled over to that spot. And while he's doing that, Bob actually finds a bunch of nitrous that Kazar had left in the car. And according to Nima, Bob takes some hits of nitrous. Another word for it is whippets. Oh, yeah.
The defense is trying to show Bob had several drugs in the system over the course of the evening.
No, Nima says he was over it and wanted to call it a night. Not angry at Bob, he says. But Bob wanted to go back to his hotel to get more Coke. And this is an important point in Nima's testimony. Nima says he made a bad joke. Nima tells Bob, if it was my last night in town, I'd hang out with my family instead of, you know, effing around in strip clubs. Yeah. Okay, so Nima says that to Bob.
Exactly. So Nima tells the jury that Bob went from zero to 100. He was offended and he was cussing Nima out, circling around him. Nima claims Bob retorted back, you think I'm a bad effing dad? I'm going to F you up. You don't think I can F you up, right? And they actually start physically fighting at this point? Yeah.
So Nima says that Bob chest bumps him, and then he saw Bob pulls out a knife from his coat pocket. That's when Nima grabs his wrist and deflects the knife. And this is kind of a big moment in court so far. Nima and his attorney start reenacting on the witness stand exactly what happened between him and Bob. They tussle with the knife, and Nima ends up pushing Bob forward. But then Bob backs away.
Okay, so how does Bob end up stabbed? Nima can't really explain how Bob was stabbed because he actually said he didn't know Bob was stabbed. He says after the whole altercation, Bob walked away, was on his phone, was silent, and he didn't think he was injured at all. When does Nima say that he found out that Bob died?
So Bob dies early Tuesday morning, and Nima says he learned about Bob's death through a text from his sister later that evening. He said he didn't really believe her at first and didn't understand what she was talking about. But on Wednesday morning, he saw the news and he testified he was heartbroken. He said, he attacked me, but he didn't deserve that.
Yeah. Yes, it's kind of almost a full circle of this story. In the first hours after Bob died, media outlets and even prominent people in the tech industry assumed Bob was killed by a stranger, probably somebody who was unhoused. On the stand last week, Nima did tell jurors there were homeless people on the street. There's a homeless shelter right there.
Kind of insinuating that even though he got in this altercation with Bob on the street, that possibly after he left, Bob was stabbed by somebody else.
Yeah, the prosecutor really came out swinging. The prosecutor tried to show Nima's story didn't make sense. And how could Bob, the successful tech businessman, lose his temper so quickly over a quote-unquote dumb joke and pull out a knife on Nima? So the prosecutor and Nima got pretty contentious, combative? Cross-examination was pretty tense. Nima interrupted the prosecutor several times.
In one exchange, the prosecutor said, I ask the questions, you answer the questions. The prosecutor also brought up the various texts between Nima and his sister Kazar that make him look pretty suspicious that he was angry at Bob. But Nima accused the prosecutor of pulling texts out of order and out of context. And you could tell that Nima was frustrated. Don't envy the jury in this case.
They have a lot to consider here. It's a very complicated case, and they have a lot of testimony they have to sift through.
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