{"id":1121,"date":"2024-04-11T23:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/ex-wrestler-daniel-rodimer-in-court-on-murder-charge-wants-phone-evidence-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T23:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:12:43","slug":"ex-wrestler-daniel-rodimer-in-court-on-murder-charge-wants-phone-evidence-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/pl\/ex-wrestler-daniel-rodimer-in-court-on-murder-charge-wants-phone-evidence-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Wrestler Daniel Rodimer in Court on Murder Charge, Wants Phone Evidence Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Spis tre\u015bci<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/pl\/ex-wrestler-daniel-rodimer-in-court-on-murder-charge-wants-phone-evidence-dismissed\/#I_Watched_You_Nearly_Murder_Somebody\" title=\"\u2018I Watched You Nearly Murder Somebody\u2019\">\u2018I Watched You Nearly Murder Somebody\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/pl\/ex-wrestler-daniel-rodimer-in-court-on-murder-charge-wants-phone-evidence-dismissed\/#Tapps_Wrongful_Murder_Conviction\" title=\"Tapp\u2019s Wrongful Murder Conviction \">Tapp\u2019s Wrongful Murder Conviction <\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/resorts-world-murder-suspect-is-reportedly-ex-las-vegas-congressional-candidate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Rodimer<\/a>, the former WWE wrestler and Republican Congressional candidate charged with murder in Las Vegas last month made his first appearance in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317062\" data-style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-post-thumbnail-858xAUTO wp-image-317062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dan-858x630.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Rodimer, Christopher Tapp, Congressional candidate, WWE, wrestling, Resorts World Las Vegas\" width=\"858\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dan-858x630.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dan-430x316.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dan.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Daniel Rodimer appears in a Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday. He is accused of attacking Christopher Tapp at Resorts World after the latter allegedly took cocaine with his stepdaughter. Tapp later died of his injuries. (Image: LVRJ)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rodimer, 45, who wrestled under the name Dan Rodman, is accused of attacking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas-death-of-wrongly-imprisoned-man-treated-as-homicide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Tapp<\/a>, 47, at a party at Resorts World Las Vegas in October.<\/p>\n<p>Tapp was found suffering from serious head injuries in the vicinity of Resorts World on October 19 and died a week later. The coroner ruled the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. Rodimer surrendered to police on March 6 after a warrant was issued for his arrest.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"I_Watched_You_Nearly_Murder_Somebody\"><\/span><strong>\u2018I Watched You Nearly Murder Somebody\u2019<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, Rodimer\u2019s defense lawyers, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, asked for evidence from their client\u2019s phone to be suppressed. They argued the evidence, which included text messages and a recorded phone call, should be considered private \u201cmarital communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p>I watched you nearly murder somebody, and I had to take your [expletive] hands off from his neck as he laid there and you ran away and I spent the next two hours trying to take care of him,\u201d Rodimer\u2019s wife, Sarah Duffy, texted her husband after the attack, according to court documents. \u201cNobody should have to watch their husband murder somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rodimer and Duffy were attending a Halloween party at Resorts World dressed as Ken and Barbie. The ex-wrestler allegedly became enraged with Tapp when he found him taking cocaine with his stepdaughter.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told police they heard Rodimer tell Tapp, \u201cIf you ever talk to my daughter again, I\u2019ll [expletive] kill you,\u201d which was followed by loud banging sounds, although the witness didn\u2019t see the alleged attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodimer is 6\u20197\u201d and weighed 300 pounds during his wrestling career, according to his WWE stats. He was active as a professional wrestler from 2004 to 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He ran for Nevada\u2019s 3rd congressional district\u00a0in 2020, losing out to the incumbent Democratic Rep. Susie Lee.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tapps_Wrongful_Murder_Conviction\"><\/span><strong>Tapp\u2019s Wrongful Murder Conviction <\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In 2019, Tapp was released from prison after serving 21 years of a life sentence for a rape and murder that he didn\u2019t commit. He was exonerated of killing an 18-year-old Idaho woman after the true perpetrator was caught using new developments in DNA technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2022, Tapp received a $11.7 million settlement from the city of Idaho Falls for his wrongful incarceration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A preliminary hearing in Rodimer\u2019s case is scheduled for May 21. Chesnoff told <em>The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> after Wednesday\u2019s hearing he was \u201clooking forward to vigorously defending this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/ex-wrestler-daniel-rodimer-in-court-on-murder-charge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Wrestler Daniel Rodimer in Court on Murder Charge, Wants Phone Evidence Dismissed<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Rodimer, the former WWE wrestler and Republican Congressional candidate charged with murder in Las Vegas last month made his first appearance in court Wednesday. Daniel Rodimer appears in a Las Vegas courtroom Wednesday. He is accused of attacking Christopher Tapp at Resorts World after the latter allegedly took cocaine with his stepdaughter. 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