Burns, Stacy, Ulmer, Jeffry (2000) Impeachment Work in the Menendez Brothers’ Murder Trial: The Interactional Achievement of Facticity, Credibility and Accountability. Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance. JAI Press, Stamford, CT, pp. 233-256Burns, S. (2000b). Impeachment work in the ...
On the other side, the prosecution made a strong case about the brothers' carefully devised plan to stage the murder of their parents and then live a life of luxury and prosperity with the inheritances they would receive upon their parents' death. They weren't exactly the picture of grief ...
The brothers also had to go through two trials since their first resulted in a mistrial. In the 1993 trial, Lyle and Erik were tried together but had separate juries ruling over their verdicts. If they were convicted of first-degree murder, the brothers could have faced the death penalty....
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they will ask a court Friday to resentence Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and are serving life without the possibility of parole.
The Menendez Brothers Erik Menendez Mug Shot | Kypros/GettyImages LyleandErik Menendez, convicted of killing their parents in one of the most infamous cases of the 20th century, speak out for the first time in 30 years. This documentary revisits the trial that shocked the nation, told through...
The question is not whetherLyle and Erik Menendezkilled their parents. They admit that they did. Instead, the focus of the case has long been on why they did it. They say they killed out of fear and in self-defense after a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse suffered at ...
Remaining true to the strategy of branding Lyle and Erik Menendez’s psychologist and parents as the real villains in the case, the defense in the brothers’ murder trial finally rested Thursday. After three months of testimony and 56 witnesses, the defense concluded after calling an expert who...
A jury found Erik, now 52, and Lyle, 55, guilty of first-degree murder in 1996 for the gruesome shooting deaths of José and their mother, Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home on August 20, 1989. The brothers claimed in court that José had abused them since...
The murder case captured the public's attention. Coming on the heels of the O.J. Simpson trial, the nation was hungry for true crime TV. The brothers' first trial was one of the first to be almost entirely televised on Court TV. It spawned documentaries, television specials and dramatiz...
The latest example involves the high-profile case of brothers ofErik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, inside the family’s Beverly Hills mansion. On Thursday, prosecutors in Los Angeles announced...