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title: Perry Mason moment text: brothers' guilt, the separate juries deadlocked on the charges, resulting in a mistrial. At their second trial, in 1996, which had one jury and was not televised, the two were convicted and are presently serving life sentences. Within a year of the first Menendez brothers' trial, in June 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, former wife of football star O. J. Simpson, and Ron Goldman, a waiter at a restaurant near her home in Los Angeles's Brentwood neighborhood, were found brutally murdered in front of her home. A few days later, police charged Simpson with the crime. After a televised live slow-speed title: Lyle and Erik Menendez text: Lyle and Erik Menendez Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are American brothers from Beverly Hills, California, who were convicted in a high-profile criminal trial in 1994 for the 1989 murder by shotgun of their wealthy parents, entertainment executive José Menéndez and his wife Mary ("Kitty"). Though initially not regarded as suspects, the duo attracted the attention of authorities as they spent their deceased parents' fortune lavishly within weeks of the murders. During the trial, the brothers claimed that the murders stemmed from years of sexual and emotional abuse that they title: Lyle and Erik Menendez text: witness, William Vicary, to edit his notes, but the district attorney's office decided that it would not conduct a criminal investigation. Both brothers filed motions for a mistrial, claiming that they suffered irreparable damage in the penalty phase as a result of suggestions of possible misconduct and ineffective representation by Abramson. On July 2, 1996, Judge Weisberg sentenced the two to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Judge Weisberg sentenced the brothers to consecutive sentences for the murders and the charges of conspiracy to commit murder. As had been done during their pretrial detention, the California Department of title: Lyle and Erik Menendez text: rather than death. The jury later said that the abuse defense was never a factor in its deliberations and that it rejected the death penalty because neither brother had a felony record or a history of violence. Unlike the juries in the previous trials, the jury in the penalty phase unanimously rejected the defense's theory that the brothers killed their parents out of fear. It is believed that the brothers had committed the murders with the intent to gain control over their father's considerable wealth. During the penalty phase of their murder trial, defense lawyer Abramson allegedly directed a defense title: Menendez: Blood Brothers text: Menendez: Blood Brothers Menendez: Blood Brothers is a 2017 television film directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, written by Abdi Nazemian, and starring Courtney Love, Nico Tortorella, Benito Martinez, and Myko Olivier. The film is based on the lives of Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who were convicted of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills, California in 1989. It aired on the Lifetime network in North America on June 11, 2017. On January 31, 2017, it was announced that Courtney Love had joined the cast of the film. The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, between