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.”
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I saw his name and skidded to a mental halt.
And dang you for the ear worm
/moodier than was a minute ago
He used the Homer Simpson defense, obviously
Oh, I didn’t realize only defendants could make that request.
Thank you.
That being said, this girl BETTER be making plans to be quickly moved to an undisclosed location for the time being.
She can forget about attending a public school like she used to do.
Her father is likely already thinking about which room in the family home will be the most efficient and sound proofed in which to kill this disrespectful, blasphemous, rebellious daughter? And who will be handling the Wet Work later on?
I have followed that trial everyday. I cannot believe those two monsters got off. 😮
Well, parental rights and all.
Just like parents that are allowed not to let their child run away to a state sponsored halfway house where they will be hidden from the parents in order to get gender transition therapy and surgery. Oh, wait... (That is actually codified into law in Washington state now. Meaning the child IS hidden from the “abusive” parents that don’t support their body dysphoria.)
Thankfully the girl is now 18 so they have no control over her.
Golly, did the jury ever figger out just what is was they WERE 'attempting' to do?
Jury: “It was just a woman”
“...unless Trump can figure out a way to get rid of this bunch.”
1. We need to overhaul our immigration law immediately, but 2. we will need to amend the constitution if we really want to get rid of Islam in this country. And I think we do.
Sorry Muslims, this is on you.
Despicable doesn't come close to describing their 9th Century savagery.
I agree and I’m not sorry about it at all.
Not one little bit.
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Yes, diversity is our strength. (spit)
“There is no express evidence that such was the motivation of either defendant in this case.”
But their was express evidence he was trying to kill her.
How can humans in a jury be so idiotic. “If, supposedly, you can’t find the motive for murder, then the murderer is innocent.”
Buy a weapon and go to the range.
I lived in NE WA for 20 years. Rural and more rational, right?
I was on a jury in 2001 where a 35 yo married man had relations with a 15 yo girl. She testified as well as many witnesses that put them together. I figured about an hour of deliberation and I’d be home. Wrong! The jury of 8 women and 4 men were there for 3 days with no verdict. I was shocked at the first vote. The four men and one woman (a grandmother) voted guilty. The other seven women voted NG. By the third afternoon it was 11-1, but one woman held out saying even if she witnessed the act she’d still let him off.
Next time I was called for jury duty I told the judge I couldn’t be on a jury that had women on it. I was excused and never called again.
OMG they got off.
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honor killing is ok in sharia laws
what country did this happen in?
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