“Unraveling the Dark Legacy: Why the Menendez Brothers’ Infamous Crimes Demand a Lifelong Sentence”

“Lyle Menendez did not take the stand, but Erik Menendez did testify. But as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appeals court that reviewed this case in 2005 – and it’s a huge mystery to me why almost no one, except for me, seems to pay attention to this ruling – said that abuse evidence – and none of it has ever been corroborated, none of it – that abuse evidence is, to use their word, misplaced.

“Because it doesn’t go to whether the brothers were in ‘imminent fear for their lives’ at the moment they burst into the den, which they were not.”