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Momeni Sentenced to 16 Years to Life
Judge Alexandra Gordon sentenced Nima Momeni to 16 years to life for the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder in December 2024.
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Sixteen years to life is the sentence on a second-degree murder conviction. The jury did not accept self-defense as a complete excuse, and the judge refused a new trial before she imposed the term. An appeal can attack that record. It is not another jury.
A San Francisco judge on Tuesday sentenced Nima Momeni to 16 years to life in state prison for killing Cash App founder Bob Lee.
Judge Alexandra Gordon imposed the term in San Francisco Superior Court, with credit for the time Momeni has already spent in jail, plus restitution and fees. She denied his motion for a new trial first. His lawyers said they plan to appeal.
A jury convicted him of second-degree murder on Dec. 17, 2024, after a trial of about two months, and acquitted him of first-degree murder. Jurors found that he stabbed Lee three times with a kitchen knife in the early hours of April 4, 2023, near the Bay Bridge in the Rincon Hill neighborhood. Momeni testified that Lee attacked him and that he was defending himself.
Lee was 43. He helped build Cash App and had been an executive at Square. His brother, Oliver Lee, told the court that Bob Lee had no voice at the trial. Momeni told both families he was sorry and that they still did not agree about what happened.
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