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The main promoter of Los Angeles, in the United States, rejected an offer from IMenendez Arms, known for murder of your pais In 1989, in the United States. County District Prosecutor Nathan Hochman made the statement during a press conference. The information is from NBC News. Prosecutors denied the petition presented by Erik and Lyle Menendez, In May 2023, claiming that the evidence cited by the brothers did not meet the standards required for a judge to order a new trial, according to the site.
Erik Menendez (C) and his brother Lyle Menendez at the Beverly Hills Court (California), August 12, 1991. Photo: Mike Nelson
In the document, Erik confirms that his father molested him sexually in the months prior to homicides. The brothers described the murders inside their own home in Beverly Hills on the night of August 20, 1989, as a self -defense. They also said they shot deadly in their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, after Lyle confronted his father about Erik’s constant abuse and threatened to expose his father, who at the time of the crime, was an executive of a large entertainment company. They have been trapped since 1990.
Also during the press conference, according to NBC News, Hochman added that Erik and a cousin, who was deceased today, witnessed about Erik’s abuse in the trial and the two said that the last time they talked about it was six years before the murders . The prosecutor said it was “inconceivable” and “challenges common sense” to believe that they discussed abuse without raising the matter at the trial, says the site.
“If they had proven that sexual abuse had been communicated not only six years before the events, but nine months before their parents’ murders, it would certainly have been revealed during the statements,” Hochman said in the interview. In the petition, a statement by Roy Rosselló, former member of the Porto-Rican Menudo group was also included.
In the document, Rossello claimed that Jose Menendez, Erik and Lyle’s father, worked for RCA, at the time, the band’s label, assaulted him sexually while the group was in the United States.
Also according to NBC News, prosecutors argued that the allegation was “inadmissible, immaterial and lacks credibility.”
Quoting the California Appeal Court, they noted that “the court of first instance stated that the main question was the state of mind of the defendants at the time of the murder and the relevant previous incident that may have had about the defendants.”
