Overview
- Clenney accepted a plea and in court Monday pleaded guilty to manslaughter with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to six years in prison with credit for about four years already served.
- Because she received credit for time served she will likely spend roughly two more years in custody and could be released sooner if she earns additional credits.
- The deal ends a trial that would have tested Clenney’s self-defense claim; her lawyers had planned to introduce text messages and domestic-violence experts but those arguments were not presented to a jury.
- The Miami-Dade medical examiner ruled Obumseli’s death a homicide from a single chest stab wound that punctured his subclavian artery and prosecutors said evidence showed a pattern of escalating violence by Clenney.
- The plea includes five years of probation, mandatory mental-health and substance-abuse evaluations and treatment, a ban on profiting from the case, and was reached in consultation with Obumseli’s family.