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...defendants with a seemingly clear motive for the murders. A riveting, controversial and protracted televised trial. And a jury decision that stunned many Americans, who had thought that the only possible outcome of the trial was a guilty verdict. But at least in the case of young Lyle and Erik Menendez, accused of shooting their parents in August 1989, the prosecutors get the chance to try it all over again...
With little fuss, and in a town still nursing a hangover from its last famous murder trial, opening arguments began last week in the Menendez retrial; the original concluded in January 1994 with two hung juries. The outlines of the case remain the same. Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 18 at the time of the murders, have confessed to shooting their parents Jose and Kitty as they watched television in their Beverly Hills living room. Erik, now 24, will again be represented by Leslie Abramson (although this time she will be paid by the county to the tune...
...prosecution, or anyone else, from talking to TV reporters about the case. The state's new team, headed by deputy district attorney David Conn, insists that this time the prosecution will focus on the murders themselves, rather than get derailed by the defense's claims that Lyle and Erik were sexually and emotionally abused by their parents...
...fear, as the defense contends, or greed--then the verdict will be first-degree murder, with a possible sentence of death. He will tell the jury the defendants used false identification to purchase shotguns two days before committing the murders, and that within 24 hours of the crime Erik and Lyle were carrying their murdered parents' safe to the home of a probate attorney, whom they asked to open it so they could see if their parents had changed their wills. Explains Conn: "I wanted the jury to be clear that whether they found that the defendants killed for their...
...knows how long this trial will take. Even without a television audience to play to, the lawyers ran into overtime in their opening arguments. But Conn expects to wrap up the case by Christmas. Of course, even if freed, Lyle and Erik might not have much of a home to return to for the holidays...