Could Child Abuse Freedom the Menendez Brothers?
After more than three decades behind bars, the Menendez brothers, Erik and Lyle, are reaching for a chance at freedom. Their crime: killing their parents back in 1989. The defense then: sexual abuse by their father. What’s new? A recent habeas corpus petition by their lawyers, pleading with a judge to re-examine their convictions. New evidence, like Erik’s old letter...