# Cash App founder’s killer to play race card in attempt to overturn murder conviction

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/cash-app-founders-killer-to-play-race-card-in-attempt-to-overturn-murder-conviction/
- Published: 2026-08-14T05:23:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-24T03:46:07+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16051893/cashapp-killer-race-overturn-conviction-murder-bob-lee.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Software, Technology, World

## Key points

- Bob Lee's killer seeks to overturn conviction citing racial bias
- Defence cites dehumanising language and keffiyeh references at trial
- Prosecutors say evidence lacks specificity to meet legal threshold

## Summary

Nima Momeni, convicted of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, is seeking to overturn his conviction by arguing that racial bias tainted his trial under California's Racial Justice Act. Momeni, who was born in Iran, faces 16 years to life in prison after being found guilty of fatally stabbing Lee in April 2023, and his defence team will argue at a Friday evidentiary hearing that prosecutors used ethnically charged and dehumanising language, including describing him as an "animal", to secure the conviction.

Momeni's lawyer, Daniel Shriro, claims prosecutors improperly linked character traits to Momeni's ethnicity and pointed to references made to a keffiyeh, a traditional Middle Eastern headscarf, during the trial. Prosecutors, represented by Assistant District Attorney Natalie Fuchs, dispute that the evidence meets the legal threshold, arguing the disputed terms came from text messages and testimony given by Momeni's own sister. Momeni killed Lee after his sister, Khazar Momeni, alleged that a friend of Lee's had drugged her with GHB and sexually assaulted her; he later drove Lee to a secluded street and stabbed him multiple times with a kitchen knife on 4 April 2023.

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