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The Zizians’ murder trial is as turbulent as you’d expect

Curtis Lind Ziz Emma Borhanian Murder United States California Prison Police

Suri Dao, left, and Alex Leatham, right, are both standing trial for the murder of their friend Emma Borhanian - (Andy Cross & The Denver Post, via Getty / Solano County Sheriff's Office)

"If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!" shouted 29-year-old Alex Leatham as officers attempted to bring her before the judge.

This was April 8, in a county courthouse in sunny Solano County, California, and Leatham — a math whiz and transgender woman known to many friends as Somni — was, not for the first time, refusing to go along with proceedings.

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