Lyle Menendez Erik Menendez prison reunited

An Oct. 31, 2016 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Erik Menendez, left, and a Feb. 22, 2018 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Lyle Menendez. The Menendez brothers, convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion nearly three decades ago, have been reunited in the Southern California prison San Diego’s R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility. The brothers are serving life sentences for fatally shooting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

Lawyers for Erik and Lyle Menendez, the Beverly Hills brothers convicted of murdering their parents in 1989, have filed what they claim is newly-discovered evidence that should earn their clients a new trial.

A letter written by Erik Menendez to his cousin in December 1988 — eight months before the brothers shot and killed Jose and Kitty Menendez on Aug. 20, 1989 — purportedly corroborates allegations of sexual abuse, Los Angeles magazine reported on Wednesday. The letter was part of a habeas corpus petition filed Tuesday by attorney Mark Geragos, who represents the brothers. Geragos is also co-owner of Los Angeles magazine’s parent company.

Geragos also submitted a declaration from a one-time member of the Latin boy band Menudo alleging that Jose Menendez, then a music executive, sexually abused him in the 1980s.



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