LOS ANGELES (Court TV) — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has filed a 132-page response opposing Erik and Lyle Menendez’s bid for a new trial.
The office said the filing “emphasizes the strength of the original convictions and the lack of any legitimate basis for retrial.”
FILE – Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez sit with defense attorney Leslie Abramson, right, in the Municipal Court in the Beverly Hills area of Los Angeles, during a hearing, Nov. 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
During their 1993 trial, the Menendez brothers testified they killed their parents in self-defense after suffering years of sexual abuse and feared they would be killed. Their first trial ended in two hung juries.
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