Menendez brothers abuse wouldn’t have changed convictions, judge rules
A judge rejected the petition of Erik and Lyle Menendez for a new hearing, and the additional evidence that their father had been subjected to sexual abuse, decided that he would not change the outcome of the hearing for more than 35 years of imprisonment because they hit their parents.
On Monday, the decision of the Los Angeles County Supreme Court Judge William C. Ryan, the last blow to the brothers’ proposal to release. Both were released on conditional during long trials in late August.
A Habeas Corpus Petition opened on behalf of the brothers In 2023, at the hearing, their father argued that they should be able to offer additional evidence that Jose Menendez had been sexually harassed.
The new evidence contained a letter in 1988, saying that Erik Menendez sent his cousin Andy Cano and abused his late young people. There were also allegations made by Roy Rosselló, a former member of the male group Menudo, who claimed that Jose Menendez had raped him.
The brothers have long argued that their fathers have long been afraid of their father that their father would continue to abuse them, and that their parents would kill them for a long time that they would kill them to cover the nightmares at the Beverly Hills house.
In 1989, the prosecutors emphasized Erik and Lyle’s wild spending madness in 1989 in the months following the deaths of their parents in 1989 and the deaths of their parents. .
“Both evidence does not contribute to the allegations of abuse of the jury before, but the brothers planned, and then found the plan to kill their abusive fathers and partner mothers,” he wrote. “The Court found that these two evidence presented here would not lead to conviction of a crime that was given to a hanging jury or less instructions.”
Ryan, Los Angeles County. Atty. Nathan Hochman would not change the fact that the petition should not give a new trial to the brothers, the evidence of abuse, the fact that the brothers planned and realized in the family living room.
Ryan wrote that the new evidence would not lead to different progress of the court because the brothers could not show fear of “close danger”.
More than 30 Menendez group spokespersons who fought for the release of the brothers did not immediately respond to a request. The regional prosecutor’s spokesman was not available to comment immediately.
The terrible murders occurred after the brothers used cash to buy a shotgun and attacked their parents while watching a movie in the family living room.
Prosecutors said that Jose Menendez was shot five times with a shotgun explosions, including the back of the head, and Kitty Menendez, who was injured before the brothers reinstalling and firing a deadly, deadly explosion, he said.
The petition rejected this week was one of the three ways of the Menendez law team in search of freedom for the brothers. Earlier this year, another judge blushed for 50 years for murders, which made them suitable for conditional evacuation after he was sentenced to prison.
Both were released at the first conditional evacuation hearing, but may reappear in front of the state panel after 18 months. Gov. It still continues before Gavin Newsom.
The first trial ended with juries hanging for every brother. Secondly, allegations of abuse and support were restricted and Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of first -degree murder in March 1996.
