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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rachel Dobkin

Menendez brothers petition for a new trial has been rejected by a judge

Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers who infamously murdered their parents at their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, have been denied a new trial.

On Monday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan rejected a habeas corpus petition filed in 2023, in which the Menendez brothers asked for a retrial based on new evidence supporting their claims that their father, Jose Menendez, sexually abused them.

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