Want to sit in on the Menendez brothers’ hearing? The lottery is Monday
LA TimesThe Los Angeles Superior Court will be implementing a lottery system to manage the eager crowds vying to watch convicted murders Eric and Lyle Menendez return to the court to seek a downgrade to their charges, possibly leading to their release. Lottery tickets will be distributed outside the courthouse from 8 to 9 a.m. Monday and the drawing will be conducted between 9 and 9:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Superior Court announced Thursday. The habeas corpus petition filed last year by their attorneys argues that new evidence bolsters the defense’s allegations that the brothers were victims of sexual abuse. This evidence includes a letter that attorneys say Erik Menendez wrote about the sexual abuse he endured as a teenager prior to committing the killings as well as new claims brought forward by Roy Rosselló, a former member of the boy band Menudo, who said he too was raped by Jose Menendez.
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