The Menendez Brothers need to have their day in courtroom … once more … they are saying they’ve new proof backing up their protection that their father was sexually abusing them.
In line with new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Erik and Lyle Menendez say they’ve a letter Erik despatched to their cousin, Andy Cano, months earlier than the shootings … the place Erik accuses their father, Jose, of sexual abuse.
Within the letter, which the brothers declare wasn’t proven to the jury at trial, Erik says he needs he might inform his mother concerning the alleged abuse however says he cannot threat it as a result of he feared she would inform Jose … and he additionally tells Andy his father is continuous to molest him.
The Menendez Brothers say the letter was despatched round 8 months earlier than they shot and killed their mother and father, and so they argue it helps their protection principle that Jose was sexually abusing them and warned them to not converse out about being molested, to the purpose the place they turned afraid of their father.
The second piece of proof entails Menudo band member Roy Rosselló‘s latest bombshell allegation about Jose.
Keep in mind … Roy claims in a brand new Peacock collection, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” that he believes he was drugged and sexually assaulted by Jose.
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The Menendez Brothers say jurors by no means heard from Roy both, and so they declare if the jury knew about Roy’s allegations and the letter, issues might need turned out in another way and so they might need purchased the protection’s principle that the brothers had been responsible of manslaughter, as an alternative of homicide.
Erik and Jose are petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus, asking the courtroom to grant the petition and decide whether or not the brand new proof is sufficient to grant them a brand new trial or different reduction.
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Lawyer Alan Jackson talked to us in April about the potential of the Menendez brothers getting a brand new trial … and he did not appear to suppose it was probably, and informed us precisely why.
It seems the Menendez Brothers are nonetheless going for it nonetheless.