A Los Angeles judge has rejected a ‘last-ditch’ legal challenge to Erik and Lyle Menendez’s murder convictions , ruling Monday the brothers have failed to show enough evidence that their murder convictions were unjust and they deserve a new trial.

LA Superior Court Judge William Ryan's decision to deny the writ of habeas corpus was detailed in a 17-page summary that explains why he’s decided two items of alleged new evidence, upon which the brothers relied, did not meet the legal threshold for granting such a petition.

"The court finds that these two pieces of evidence presented here would not have resulted in a hung jury, nor in the conviction of a lesser instructed offense," Judge Ryan said.

"Neither piece of newly discover [sic] evidence is particularly strong," Ryan continued. "Th

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