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Is there any situation where a murderous, premeditated, preemptive strike is justified? "If anyone could have gotten them off, it would have been the brothers’ lead counsel, Leslie Abramson. ... Abramson’s job was to distract and deflect. She was good at it. But she could never get past one...

What ??? I have never heard that before ... or maybe I found it unbelievable. So Kitty Menendez was a sex offender too. Interesting. It sounds like Kitty and Jose were a bit like Fred and Rosemary West - jointly sexually assaulting their own children. There it is - from humble beginnings, to...

Maybe we should give Kitty Menendez more respect and look at her murder separate from Jose. The argument seems to be that the murder of Jose was justified due to mitigating factors, and his wife is tossed in as an extension of Jose. I can believe that Kitty Menendez was given little attention...

Circumstantial Evidence Fingerprints, blood, semen, saliva, associated DNA analysis, duct tape used to wrap Laci, timelines, evidence of concrete anchors, whistling relief when it's a big ole' anchor, ignoring the phone during a TV interview at home, bodies washing up where he went fishing on...

I keep waiting for more information. Was this a case where she was lured online, walked out of her house, and got into a vehicle? Did she leave her house for a walk or a run and she was grabbed? Did she decide to take a break from her parents? What's the sense with this missing 13 year old?

It's easy to view DNA evidence and circumstantial evidence as two separate types of evidence at first, but DNA evidence, blood evidence, etc. are different types of circumstantial evidence. Direct evidence, such as an eye witness to the murder, is rare and has resulted in false convictions...

Tunnel vision and unjust convictions were more common before the invention of DNA analysis in the UK during the mid-1980s. DNA evidence is rarely useful in ruling in, or out, spousal homicide because suspect and victim DNA is expected to be at the crime scene. DNA evidence is circumstantial...

Some of Scott's siblings have made their feelings clear about his guilt, one or two family members are fighting to have him released from prison. If Scott had committed the same murders in Canada in 2002, he would be released from prison by now. Each day of pre-trial prison time counts for 1.5...

This is the residential area of 1000 block on Shattuck Avenue where she was last seen...

All the trial evidence is available online, and posting a link to trial evidence shouldn't be a problem. The above photo is the only one I'm aware of that was argued to be pornographic. It isn't.

Pornographic photos of Lyle and Erik Menendez? https://abcnews.go.com/US/menendez-brothers-burst-tears-emotional-prison-reunion-decades/story?id=54281350

This isn't about children who are intimidated by authority. These two men, aged 18 and 21 at the time of the murders, had their entire lives ahead of them. They should have done what many people age 18-21 do: get a job, find a place to live, build a life and a future for themselves. I don't...

Agreed - no interest in hearing what two men, who each killed two people, have to say after spending their entire adults lives in prison with hardened criminals. They chose an ugly life, and their words cannot be anything other than a reflection of that ugly choice.

We know that Lyle and Erik shot their parents, who were watching TV, 5-10 times each. They did this, according to them, because they imagined that their parents might do something in the future. Specifically, they imagined something might happen, so they slowly and brutally shot two people to...

That would set an interesting precedent. Adults who imagine that their parents will do something against them can shoot their parents 5-10 times each and it's manslaughter. There might be a few greedy adults who are eye-balling their parents wealth, and weighing the option of a few years in...

Erik had a pampered life, and a fascination with dying? Is that why he shot his mother in the knee three times to start? Lyle shot their father, Erik was supposed to shoot his mother but he wounded her so many times that they had to reload to kill her with the 10th bullet. Lyle shot 4 times...

In 1988, Erik was scheming with a friend to commit the perfect crime. He then wrote a story about how to commit the perfect crime of murdering parents for inheritance. Then he was involved in burglaries totalling $100,000 - a perfect crime except for the friend who reported him. It's...

Was the burglary a prank? In 1988, Erik was thinking about how to murder parents for inheritance. That same year, Lyle, Erik and a friend robbed families of money and jewellery. They were arrested after their friend reported them to police. Erik and Lyle had plenty of use for stolen money...

The only person who would claim that they were abused because their mother helped them with homework is a sociopath. It's twisted thinking. All responsible parents help their children with homework at some point. As long as their children pass their exams - which are completed without parental...

They killed their mother to "put her out of her misery". That sounds like shooting a wounded animal. Who shoots their mother because they think she's better off dead? That's cold-blooded. The reason they had to kill both parents was to ensure that they received the inheritance. Leaving their...