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"New Evidence" That Wasn't Enough to Win the Menendez Brothers a New Trial | Crime Alert 6AM 10.01.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, imanc Grace breaking crime news nowt Lyolin Eric
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  Speaker 1: Menendez will not be getting out of jail. Lawyers for
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  Speaker 1: the brothers convicted of killing both parents, Jose and Kitty,
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  Speaker 1: filed a petition with the court, signing two new pieces
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  Speaker 1: of evidence. They claim the evidence supports claims of sex abuse.
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  Speaker 1: LA Superior Court Judge William Ryan rejected the motion, saying
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  Speaker 1: the new evidence was not compelling enough to produce a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one jurrr
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  Speaker 1: Lylin Eric Menendez will be eligible to apply for parole
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  Speaker 1: again in three short years straight out to Drew Nelson
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  Speaker 1: for more Nancye.
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  Speaker 2: Judge William C. Ryan ruled those two additional pieces of
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  Speaker 2: evidence were not strong enough to reopen the case. Judge
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  Speaker 2: Ryan denying Eric and Lylman Mendez's twenty twenty three habeas
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  Speaker 2: corpus petition, closing off another path to freedom less than
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  Speaker 2: a month after both men were denied parole. Their attorneys
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  Speaker 2: argue that those two items uncovered in recent years warranted
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  Speaker 2: a new trial. The first a nineteen ninety eight letter
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  Speaker 2: written by Eric to his cousin Andy Cano, describing sexual
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  Speaker 2: abuse by their father, Jose Menendez. The second was a
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  Speaker 2: statement from former Menudo singer Roy Roussello, who claimed Jose
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  Speaker 2: raped him in nineteen eighty three, an allegation made public
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  Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty three docu series Menendez plus Menudo
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  Speaker 2: Boys Betrayed. Judge Ryan said neither item met the legal
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  Speaker 2: threshold to justify a retrial. He wrote, quote neither piece
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  Speaker 2: of newly discovered evidence is particularly strong. He said the
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  Speaker 2: letter quote contradicts in part the testimony of Eric and
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  Speaker 2: Cano end quote does not additionally inform the jury of
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  Speaker 2: petitioner's alleged fear at the time of the murders. Judge
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  Speaker 2: Ryan added that the Menudo allegation quote corroborates the general
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  Speaker 2: allegation that Jose was sexually abusive of boys and young men,
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  Speaker 2: but it is not relevant to the petitioner's state of
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  Speaker 2: mind at the time of the murders. District Attorney Nathan
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  Speaker 2: Hackman praised the ruling, calling it quote a full kibosh
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  Speaker 2: on the brother's attempt to overturn their convictions. Quote, this
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  Speaker 2: petition does not come close to meeting the factual or
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  Speaker 2: legal stander to warrant a new trial. Hawkman also repeated
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  Speaker 2: his long held stance quote not never, but not yet.
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  Speaker 1: He said.
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  Speaker 2: The brothers have quote never acknowledged their calculated plan to
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  Speaker 2: kill their parents, nor their attempts to suborn perjury from
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  Speaker 2: friends to bolster their false self defense narrative. Legal experts
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  Speaker 2: called the habeas petition a long shot. Judge Ryan agreed,
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  Speaker 2: writing that the evidence quote would not have produced a
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  Speaker 2: reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one juror
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  Speaker 2: or supportive of an imperfect self defense instruction. The hearings
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  Speaker 2: drawing national attention as state officials, reporters, and family members
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  Speaker 2: packed into what cow Matters called a circus like proceeding.
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  Speaker 2: Both hearings were live streamed, and the release of Rickmanendez
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  Speaker 2: his hearing audio less than twenty four hours later caused
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  Speaker 2: a public uproar. Their attorney protested that the California Department
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  Speaker 2: of Corrections had broken its own rules. The board acknowledged
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  Speaker 2: the brothers acomplishments in prison, from hospice work to trauma programs,
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  Speaker 2: but cited recent cell phone use violations and what it
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  Speaker 2: described as quote, antisocial personality traits as reasons for the
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  Speaker 2: three year denials. Although the brother's notoriety ensured the full
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  Speaker 2: sentencing review, but brought immense political pressure and scrutiny to
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  Speaker 2: their parole bids. Governor Gavin Newsom's representative personally attended the hearings,
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  Speaker 2: signaling how politically charged any decision to release them would be.
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  Speaker 2: Pressure would have landed on Newsom to block their parole
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  Speaker 2: under California law, Legal experts told cal Matters that people
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  Speaker 2: their age rarely reoffend, yet the optics of freeing two
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  Speaker 2: men who murdered their parents still weigh heavily. Eric and
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  Speaker 2: Lyle were resentenced in May to fifty years to life,
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  Speaker 2: making them immediately eligible for parole under youth offender laws.
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  Speaker 2: Their next parole hearings are scheduled for twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: though with good behavior the weight could be reduced to
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  Speaker 2: early twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Drew more crime and Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: Actor. Tyrese Gibson is wanted in Fulton County, Georgia, after
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  Speaker 2: police say his Cane Corso dogs mauled and killed a
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  Speaker 2: neighbor's small dog in the upscale Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead.
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  Speaker 2: The attack happened on September eighteenth, outside Gibson's mansion on
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  Speaker 2: Tuxedo Court. Police say four cane corsos belonging to the
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  Speaker 2: Fast and Furious Star were roaming freely when they killed
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  Speaker 2: a five year old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Henry.
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  Speaker 2: The dog's owner, Harrison Parker, said he had led Henry
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  Speaker 2: outside for a few minutes that night and returned to
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  Speaker 2: find him dead in the driveway. A police report said
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  Speaker 2: Henry suffered broken ribs, puncture wounds, and severe internal bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: Security footage showed Gibson's dog scratching at a door across
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  Speaker 2: the street minutes before the attack. Another neighbor called nine
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  Speaker 2: one one that same night because she couldn't reach her
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  Speaker 2: car with the dog standing outside her door. Fulton County
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  Speaker 2: officials said Gibson's dogs had been reported running loose on
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  Speaker 2: five different occasions before the deadly mauling. He had already
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  Speaker 2: received several warnings and was told he needed a permits
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  Speaker 2: he owned more than ten dogs. After the attack, Gibson
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  Speaker 2: agreed to surrender the animals, but later changed his mind.
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  Speaker 2: When officers returned to his home on the twenty second
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  Speaker 2: with a search warrant, both Gibson and the dogs were gone.
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  Speaker 2: Gibson's attorneys said the actor was not home when the
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  Speaker 2: attack happened and has since rehomed the dogs. In a statement,
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  Speaker 2: the lawyer said Gibson quote extends his deepest condolences to
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  Speaker 2: the family who lost their beloved dog and is cooperating
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  Speaker 2: fully with authorities. Police later learned Gibson had left the country.
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  Speaker 2: He had posted online that he was taking a mental
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  Speaker 2: health break in Dubai and would not return until November.
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  Speaker 2: Parker said Henry was his first dog and his closest companion.
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  Speaker 2: An arrest warrant for cruelty to animals remains active. A
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  Speaker 2: former American Idol contestant who once said Katy Perry gave
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  Speaker 2: him his first kiss is sentenced to twenty five years
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  Speaker 2: in prison for possessing child sexual abuse material. Benjamin Glaize,
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  Speaker 2: aged twenty six, pleaded guilty in Tulsa County District Court
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  Speaker 2: after police found more than seven hundred images and videos
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  Speaker 2: of child sexual abuse on his phone. He will serve
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  Speaker 2: fifteen years in prison and another ten years suspended. Glaze
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  Speaker 2: must also register as a sex offender and face strict
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  Speaker 2: release conditions, including a test to measure sexual arousal and
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  Speaker 2: a lifetime ban on viewing pornography. Or entering adult businesses.
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  Speaker 2: The Tulsa Police Department said the investigation began in April
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four after a mental health counselor told detectives
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  Speaker 2: that Glaze had confessed to a child pornography addiction. Officers
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  Speaker 2: later executed a search warrant and seized his phone, uncovering
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of files showing the sexual abuse of miners. He
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  Speaker 2: was arrested that October and charged with aggravated possession of
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  Speaker 2: child sexual abuse material. Court record show Glaze admitted to
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  Speaker 2: his guilt. In order to qualify for release after fifteen years,
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  Speaker 2: he must take a penile pledthismograph test and enable screening
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  Speaker 2: to measure his responses to adult and child images. He
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  Speaker 2: is also barred from strip clubs and sex shops. He
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  Speaker 2: must wear appropriate clothing at all times and submit regular
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  Speaker 2: blood tests for sexually transmit diseases. Glaize had his fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes of fame in twenty eighteen when he auditioned for
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  Speaker 2: American Idol. The then nineteen year old told judges Katy Perry,
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  Speaker 2: Luth Bryan, and Lionel Ritchie he had never kissed a girl.
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  Speaker 2: Perry then called him forward and kissed him on the
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  Speaker 2: lips after he leaned in for a cheek kiss. The
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  Speaker 2: moment went viral and stirreed public backlash. Glaze later told
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  Speaker 2: The New York Times he was quote a tad uncomfortable
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  Speaker 2: and wanted his first kiss to be special. Though he
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  Speaker 2: said he did not believe Perry had sexually harassed him,
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  Speaker 2: He later defended her online, writing quote, I am very
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  Speaker 2: honored and thankful to have been a part of American Idol.
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  Speaker 2: I do not think I was sexually harassed by Katy Perry.
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  Speaker 2: After the show, Glaze joined the Marines and later worked
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  Speaker 2: as a video editor.
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  Speaker 3: With this crime alert. Imancy Grace