The attorneys argue these two pieces of evidence counters prosecutors’ narrative that Jose Menendez was not violent or the type of person who would abuse children. Rossello shared the assaults in a sworn declaration in an exhibit filed with the habeas petition. Gardner also discovered last year that as part of a documentary, Rossello said in an interview “he was anally raped twice, and orally copulated, by Jose Menendez when Roy was only 13 or 14 years old” while he was in New York City performing shows, the document says. The letter was discovered by Jose Menendez’s younger sister and Andy’s mother, Marta Cano, who shared it with journalist Robert Rand in April 2018, who then shared the letter with Erik Menendez’s former appellate counsel Cliff Gardner the same month, the court document says.Ī review of court records shows the letter was not presented at either of the two trials, the document says. Am I a serious whimpus? I don’t know I’ll make it through this. He’s crazy! He’s warned me a hundred times about telling anyone especially Lyle. I know what you said before but I’m afraid. Every night I stay up thinking he might come in. “I never know when its (sic) going to happen and its driving me crazy. “He’s so overweight that I can’t stand to see him,” the letter says. The Menendez brothers have been reunited in prison The pair are each serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for killing their parents in 1989. The letter from Erik Menendez to his cousin, Andy Cano, in December 1988 says “Its (sic) still happening Andy but its worse for me now.”Įrik and Lyle Menendez are now housed together at RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, which prosecuted the two trials in the 1990s, told CNN in a statement, “We have received the habeas petition in the Menendez matter and it’s currently under review.”
The petition also says Roy Rossello – who was in the Latin boy band, Menudo, in the 1980s – says he was raped by Jose Menendez, who was an executive at RCA Records. In a habeas petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the brothers’ attorneys say that a letter sent by Erik to his cousin eight months before the murders shares details of his father’s abuse.
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The brothers were retried and found guilty in 1996 after a first trial ended with jurors deadlocked. “They can and do interact with each other, all the inmates in that facility,” she said, though she didn’t know how the brothers reacted during their reunion.Attorneys for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of the 1989 murder of their parents, say new evidence shows the convictions and life sentences should be overturned, according to court documents filed Wednesday.Īt their high-profile trials decades ago, the brothers did not deny killing Jose and Kitty Menendez, but argued that they should not be convicted of premeditated murder because they acted in self-defense after enduring a lifetime of abuse by their father. That changed Wednesday, when Eric moved into the same housing unit as his brother, a unit where inmates agree to participate in educational and other rehabilitation programs without fighting or creating disruptions. The prison houses nearly 3,900 male inmates. But the brothers lived in separate housing units and would not have seen each other, Thornton said. Donovan Correctional Facility, after his security classification was lowered. Lyle Menendez was moved in February from Mule Creek State Prison in Northern California to San Diego’s R.J.
The brothers are serving life sentences for fatally shooting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. The Menendez brothers, who were convicted of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion nearly three decades ago, have been reunited in a Southern California prison.Įrik Menendez, 47, has moved into the same housing unit as his 50-year-old brother, Lyle Menendez, Corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said Thursday.
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