CLEVELAND (Court TV) — A divorce attorney accused of stabbing his client to death will head to trial after a judge refused to dismiss charges against him.
Gregory Moore appears in court on July 29, 2026. (Court TV)
Gregory Moore, 52, has pleaded not guilty to murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in the death of his client, Aliza Sherman, 53. Prosecutors have said that Sherman was stabbed to death outside Moore’s law office on March 25, 2013, and have accused Moore of sending her a message that lured her to her death. While Sherman waited for Moore outside the office, she was approached by someone who chased her before stabbing her more than 10 times.
Sherman’s death came as investigators were focusing on Moore as a person of interest in a bomb threat that had been called in to Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court in 2012. Investigators said they believe Moore made the call to avoid appearing in court.
While Moore’s attorneys presented evidence at a July hearing arguing that charges should be dismissed because so much time had elapsed since the killing that key evidence and witness testimony were lost, Judge Kira Krivosh disagreed. “Defendant must show ‘that the delay was an intentional device to gain tactical advantage’ by the state,” she wrote in her order denying the defense motion. “Here, defendant has failed to show more than speculative prejudice. Defendant has not shown that any of the now-deceased witnesses would have provided now-unavailable material testimony, nor that actual prejudice has resulted from the loss of technological records, videos and recordings.”
Krivosh further found that “the state has thoroughly shown its legitimate investigative history and how the factors eventually led to charging defendant Moore in this case.”
Prosecutors explained at the July hearing that Sherman’s death was considered a cold case until 2023, when investigators discovered receipts and cellphone purchase records that they say connect Moore both to the bomb threat and to Sherman’s death.
Among the witnesses Moore’s defense had pointed to as now unavailable was Sherman’s estranged husband, Sanford Sherman, who died in 2024. His death, Moore’s attorney argued, prejudiced the defense because “it’s a fundamentally different trial when you can’t put a man on the stand.”
The judge has not yet set a trial date. Moore is out of jail on bond with GPS monitoring while he awaits trial.
