The sentencing of Nima Momeni, who was found guilty in December 2024 of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, will be delayed again. This afternoon, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Patrick Thompson ruled to allow an evidentiary hearing on whether Momeni’s trial was influenced in some way by racial bias.
In that trial, which concluded nearly 18 months ago after seven weeks of testimony and seven days of jury deliberations, Momeni was found guilty of second-degree murder for stabbing Lee, and faces a sentence of up to life in prison.
Momeni’s current attorney, Daniel Shriro, does not appear to have been a part of the legal team that defended him at that trial. Shriro cited several examples of language used by witnesses and lawyers at the trial as evidence of alleged racial bias against Momeni, who immigrated with his mother and sister from Tehran when he was 14 to seek asylum in the United States…