Menendez Brothers' Lawyer Admits Ryan Murphy Show Helped Murder Case

Erik Menendez's Attorney Makes Rare Comments About Ryan Murphy's ‘Monsters’ Series

Despite Erik Menendez's disapproval of Ryan Murphy's bid astir his and brother Lyle Menendez's execution case, it whitethorn extremity up changing their lives.

As authorities reappraisal caller grounds that could pb to a caller trial, condemnation oregon adjacent the merchandise of the brothers, who are in situation for beingness for the 1989 killings of their parents Jose Menendez and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, their lawyer spoke retired astir the interaction of the Glee cocreator's amusement Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.

“When the Ryan Murphy bid came out, it was specified a caricature of them that the pendulum plaything backlash really created a absorption connected it," lawyer Mark Geragos said astatine a press conference Oct. 16, astir a period aft the programme premiered, "and radical past took a look."

Erik had slammed Monster implicit its portrayal of the siblings, portion Ryan has dismissed the criticism.

During the televised 1993 trial, prosecutors had said Erik and Lyle's motivation for fatally shooting their parent and begetter stemmed from their tendency to inherit their money. However, the brothers alleged their parents had physically, emotionally and sexually abused them for years and their ineligible squad had argued they killed them successful self-defense.

Geragos said that owed to the "younger generation," determination has "been a movement."

"I cognize that I’ve seen immoderate of those videos of the archetypal proceedings that was televised wherever the DA’s bureau was taking the presumption that men could not beryllium raped, they don’t person the equipment," Geragos, who did not correspond the brothers during their trial, said astatine the property conference. "And you’ve seen each kinds of arguments on those lines."

The lawyer continued, "That is unfathomable successful today’s property to radical who weren't live backmost then. So I deliberation that improvement has been, frankly, seismic."

Both brothers person for years filed habeas corpus petitions to effort to overturn their convictions, astir precocious successful 2023.

"If the habeas would beryllium granted, you would get a caller trial," Geragos said astatine the property conference. "If they are resentenced, the justice nether California instrumentality has the quality to callback and condemnation them to a wide scope of options."

The petition alleges that the shootings of the Menendez brothers' parents "were not execution but manslaughter committed retired of an honorable though unreasonable content successful the request for self-defense aft a beingness of intersexual and carnal abuse."

In the document, the siblings' ineligible squad besides reason that a missive Erik allegedly wrote months earlier the killings, successful which helium accused their begetter of abuse, and allegations erstwhile Menudo set subordinate Ray Rosselló had besides made against Jose contradicted the greed motive that prosecutions had argued astir successful the trial.

Two weeks aft the merchandise of Monsters—which saw Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch play Lyle and Erik, respectively, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon said his bureau would reappraisal caller grounds that the brothers were allegedly molested.

“After 2005, they didn’t believe, they thought they were going to walk the remainder of their lives successful prison," Geragos said, "and they had resigned themselves to it."

He added, "I usage the word ‘cautiously optimistic.' There is an irony that DA authorities played a relation successful their conviction."