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OnlyFans exemplary Courtney Clenney is trying to crook the tables connected prosecutors earlier her execution trial, asking a Miami-Dade justice to artifact the authorities from utilizing a drawstring of alleged anterior convulsive incidents to overgarment her arsenic the aggressor.

Clenney, the OnlyFans exemplary accused successful the 2022 decease of Christian Obumseli, volition reason she acted "in self-defense and arsenic a battered spouse," according to recently filed defence motions successful Miami-Dade transgression tribunal reviewed by Fox News Digital.

In a July 1 filing, her lawyers asked a Miami-Dade justice to let them to bring up Obumseli’s 2020 Austin apprehension warrant if the authorities opens the doorway by describing him arsenic peaceful, gentle, passive oregon nonviolent.

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The warrant, attached to the defence filing, accused Obumseli of cruelty to a nonlivestock animal, a Class A misdemeanor, successful Travis County, Texas. It lists an discourtesy day of Nov. 2, 2020, but does not amusement however the lawsuit was resolved.

Courtney Clenney fatally stabbed fellow Christian Obumseli with a room knife. She says she acted successful self-defense. (Instagram/ Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office)

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Clenney’s lawyers assertion the records down the warrant picture flat unit uncovering Obumseli’s dormant dog, Halo, confined wrong a kennel successful a closet aft an flat had been abandoned. Investigators allegedly recovered nutrient successful the kennel but nary water, and feces surrounding the animal.

A veterinary pathologist concluded the dog’s astir apt origin of decease was dehydration from h2o deprivation, and investigators believed Halo had been dormant for 5 to 7 days earlier being discovered, the defence question says. The filing besides claims Obumseli gave "vague, confusing, and conflicting" accounts astir the dog’s death.

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Miami OnlyFans exemplary Courtney Clenney is charged with second-degree execution for fatally stabbing Christian Obumseli. Her lawyers accidental she acted successful self-defense. (Instagram)

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The animal-cruelty combat is portion of a broader pretrial conflict implicit however jurors volition spot the couple’s volatile relationship. The grounds combat besides includes the publicized elevator video prosecutors allegedly privation to usage to amusement Clenney arsenic the aggressor.

In a abstracted June 29 filing, Clenney’s lawyers argued prosecutors are presenting a misleading snippet of the February 2022 elevator video. The state, according to the defense, says the video shows Clenney striking Obumseli, pulling his hairsbreadth and continuing to deed him earlier the doors unfastened and helium tin escape.

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Courtney Clenney was covered successful bruises aft allegedly stabbed Christian Obumseli to death. (Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office)

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But the defence says prosecutors commencement the video excessively late.

Clenney’s lawyers assertion earlier footage shows her entering the elevator from her residential level partially clothed, barefoot and without shoes, keys, wallet oregon phone. When she reached the lobby, her ft was bleeding, the filing says.

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The defence says Obumseli aboriginal entered the elevator, saw humor connected the level and wiped it distant with his foot.

When Clenney aboriginal got backmost into the elevator, Obumseli followed her, the defence says. Her lawyers reason she repeatedly pressed elevator buttons successful an evident effort to adjacent the doors earlier helium could enter.

Courtney Clenney is charged with second-degree execution for allegedly stabbing Christian Obumseli with a room weapon April 3, 2022, successful Miami Florida. (Instagram)

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Once inside, the filing claims, Obumseli maneuvered astir Clenney, reached for the key-fob scholar and appeared to enactment her successful a headlock portion trying to activate the elevator and summation entree to the apartment.

Clenney’s lawyers accidental she struck him during the conflict successful an effort to halt him from getting upstairs. Prosecutors person disputed her account, citing the Miami-Dade aesculapian examiner’s decision that the fatal coiled was inconsistent with her statement of what happened.

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Clenney was arrested 4 months aboriginal astatine a rehabilitation installation successful Hawaii and charged with second-degree murder. She has pleaded not guilty. Fox News Digital has reached retired to Clenney's attorneys for comment.

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