Posted on 07/31/2025 8:53:26 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Two Lacey parents have been found not guilty of attempted murder in connection with an assault on their teenage daughter.
Ihsan and Zahraa Ali were accused of trying to kill their teen daughter outside Timberline High School last fall.
After three days of deliberations, a jury found both parents not guilty of attempted murder.
However, the girl’s father, Ihsan, was found guilty of assault and unlawful imprisonment. The mother, Zahraa, was only found guilty of violating a court order, but was determined to be not guilty of attempted murder, unlawful imprisonment or assault.
Sentencing for both parents is set for mid-August. Mrs. Ali will be released from custody Thursday on her own personal recognizance but is ordered not to leave Thurston County and follow no contact orders that are in effect. Mr. Ali remains in custody until sentencing.
According to prosecutors, Mr. Ali faces up to 14 months on the assault conviction and up to 12 months on his unlawful imprisonment conviction.
Background on the case
Multiple witnesses testified during the trial that they saw Ihsan Ali trying to strangle his 17-year-old daughter.
“She’s unconscious, and he continues to strangle her around the neck for another 15-18 seconds and would have continued to do so even longer but for the intervention of those adults,” Stone said.
The initial investigation indicated Ali may have threatened his daughter with a so-called “honor killing” for refusing to go to Iraq for an arranged marriage to an older man, but prosecutors later wrote in court documents, “There is no express evidence that such was the motivation of either defendant in this case.”
During closing arguments, prosecutors said Zahraa Ali appeared to try to help her husband carry out the attempted murder.
"And when you look at that video, you see she does not provide any aid at any time to her child, zero aid,” Stone said. “That is not an effort to comfort her child. Again, that is not where her loyalty lies in this situation, and she demonstrates that over and over again."
But defense attorneys for the Alis zeroed in on intent, and they say neither parent was trying to kill their daughter that day.
"There’s no nefarious intent,” Erik Kaeding, who represents Ihsan Ali, said. “There’s no intent to hurt anybody badly, there’s no intent to kill anybody, there’s an intent to take your daughter home.”
“My client is not guilty,” Timothy Leary, who represents Zahraa Ali, said. “I think we can all agree this is a tragedy. They certainly could’ve done things differently, but that does not make this a crime.”
If the parents didn’t testify, and the attorney said it only, it happened, and the jury shouldn’t have considered the attorney’s comments and whims.
The girl has to run for her life!
NOW!!!
I wonder if any fellow muslims were in the jury?
Olympia is as far left as you can get.
Prolly muslim leftist sympathizers. ANTIFA sorts who approve of the destruction of Western Civilization.
POS Washington state jury. Guaranteed a couple of females on the jury wouldn’t convict because of their culture.
We need an Underground Railroad to get these girls safely away from their murderous muslim parents.
So.......they tell the girl to suck it up and go home?
That daughter is a dead woman walking.
Sounds like they got a Sharia-Compliant jury. Soon, we’ll be like the UK, unless Trump can figure out a way to get rid of this bunch.
According to our legal experts here on FR unless you sat down and wrote out that you intend to kill someone and the reason for it and get it notarized you are just a victim of your emotions and anyone who thinks differently is a bad person.
Yes, I wonder how much ‘community relations’ figured in this.
Well, we do have to allow or these cultural differences, after all, all cultures are of equal value.
Her lawyer should have asked for a Change of Venue.
Too many in that city have become Liberal Drones and Puppets.
“That daughter is a dead woman walking.”
Omgomgomg….,
How can you get far enough away and hide for the rest of your life???
I’d say 99%.
Most likely.
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