Tech guide Nima Momeni’s lawyer is on trip, delaying a court docket date within the case of Bob Lee’s killing

• Nima Momeni, the suspect within the killing of Money App founder Bob Lee, shall be arraigned on April 25.
• Momeni’s lawyer, Paula Canny, is on trip, Canny’s brother and fellow lawyer instructed the court docket.

The tech guide Nima Momeni appeared in a San Francisco court docket on Friday, the day after his arrest on accusations he murdered Money App founder Bob Lee earlier this month.

Momeni was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday — a continuing during which defendants are learn the fees in opposition to them introduced by prosecutors, after which they’ll enter their plea.

The arraignment was posposted to April 25 after a quick listening to in San Francisco state court docket.

That is as a result of Momeni’s lawyer, Paula Canny, is on trip, her brother and fellow lawyer Robert Canny instructed the court docket.

Momeni attended the listening to sporting an orange sweatsuit, a black face masks, and together with his head shaved. He did not communicate on the proceedings, besides to briefly reply a query by Decide Christine Van Aken, who oversaw the listening to. His sister Khazar Momeni was additionally seen in court docket.

A consultant for Paula Canny’s regulation agency didn’t remark. A consultant for the San Francisco District Lawyer’s workplace didn’t reply to emailed requests for touch upon Friday.

Canny later addressed reporters outdoors the courtroom, saying Momeni’s buddies and a number of relations attended the listening to.

“My sister’s on trip,” he mentioned. “He had family and friends right here in assist. The information as to what occurred and didn’t happen will come out over time.”

The 38-year-old Momeni was arrested in Emeryville, California, the San Francisco police division mentioned at a press convention on Thursday.

Momeni’s arrest on Thursday, first reported by the outlet Mission Native, adopted a greater than week-long hunt for a suspect in a case that infected hypothesis within the tech trade in regards to the circumstances of the deadly assault on Lee.

Some commentators, together with Twitter CEO Elon Musk, implied baselessly that Lee was attacked randomly.

However at Thursday’s press convention, San Francisco District Lawyer Brooke Jenkins mentioned that police consider Momeni and Lee could have identified one another, repudiating the narrative on social media discussing Lee’s loss of life within the context of avenue crime in San Francisco.

Correction: April 14, 2023: An earlier model of this story misspelled the identify of the decide, Christine Van Aken.