The Bob Lee case after the panic about San Francisco crime

When Bob Lee was killed in April 2023, the story exploded into a culture-war argument about San Francisco. But the prosecution that followed was much more personal than that. Prosecutors said Nima Momeni stabbed Lee after a dispute involving Momeni's sister and Lee's behavior around drugs and relationships. In December 2024, a jury convicted Momeni of second-degree murder. You might expect that to be the clean endpoint. Instead, the case stretched on. ABC7 reported in January 2026 that Momeni still had not been sentenced more than a year after the verdict. So the true follow-up is not just 'they caught someone.' It's that the case moved away from the easy national narrative and into a slower, unresolved local court process.