From the New York Post: As infamous killer brothers Erik and Lyle Mendendez wait for their August parole hearing, they have scored a legal victory on another front, this time in the form of new evidence they say could have led to their acquittal.
The pair, who admitted to killing their parents, Mary “Kitty” and Jose Menendez, in a bloody 1989 shotgun massacre inside their Beverly Hills home, claimed for years that their actions were self-defense stemming from a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse.
A July 8 court order obtained by Fox News Digital will force the state to explain why evidence to that effect was barred from their trial.
About eight months before the double-homicide, Erik allegedly wrote a letter to his cousin, Andy Cano, claiming that Jose had sexually abused him and Lyle.
1996 Menendez conviction questioned amid brothers’ fight to be released from prison https://t.co/gD9h7gYGMl pic.twitter.com/Y6Mo8lI5VF
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 14, 2025
The Menendez brothers have been back in the headlines since Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story launched to the top of Netflix. https://t.co/XwpA1H8NbN
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 13, 2025
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