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With the two brothers attending Monday's hearing via a web link, Jesic allowed two family matriarchs — the oldest sisters of Jose and Kitty Menendez — to provide testimony in person.
At a hearing on Monday, Nov. 25, Kitty Menendez's older sister testified that her sister knew about the sexual abuse Lyle and Erik allegedly suffered at the hands of their father, Jose Menendez.
The first Menendez brothers trial for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty resulted in a hung jury. In 1996, after a second trial, Lyle and Erik, who do not dispute that they ...
The Menendez family has lobbied for them to be released, arguing they were victims of sexual abuse. Jesic heard testimony on Monday from Joan VanderMolen, Kitty Menendez’ 92-year-old sister, as ...
Support for the brothers has grown exponentially on TikTok under hashtags like “free the Menendez brothers,” spotlighting the brothers’ “heartbreaking ” trial testimony about their abuse ...
A second trial in 1995 ended with both brothers’ convictions on two counts of first-degree murder after a judge ruled the jury could not hear most of the testimony about the alleged sexual abuse.
"The accusations were so widespread that even if you believed that a specific priest did not abuse a boy it was no longer credible to believe that sexual victimization of boys did not take place ...
The brothers' first trial, which included testimony detailing the abuse, ended in two hung juries. In the second trial, much of the evidence of the abuse was excluded, according to the habeas ...