A juror on the Menendez brothers’ trial thinks in the present day’s extra educated and woke world may have saved them — after it was introduced Thursday that new proof claiming the pair had been sexually abused shall be reviewed 30 years after they had been discovered responsible of killing their dad and mom.
“In the event that they had been tried once more, I do assume that the result can be very completely different as a result of individuals know extra as of late, individuals perceive extra as of late,” Hazel Thornton, a juror from Lyle and Erik Menendez’s first trial, instructed NewsNation’s “Banfield.”
The Menendez brothers claimed they acted in self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their dad and mom, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, once they gunned them down of their Beverly Hills dwelling in 1989 — however Thornton stated the boys on the jury didn’t purchase it.
“However the males within the room, it was a traditional battle of the sexes. The lads didn’t consider that Jose had been abusing his sons,” Thornton, writer of the guide “Hung Jury: The Diary Of A Menendez Jury,” instructed visitor host Laura Ingle.
Prosecutor Lester Kuriyama additionally introduced up the concept that Erik was homosexual in his closing arguments, which Thornton stated the jury’s male part could have additionally used towards the defendants whereas deliberating.
“There was no proof to again that up. It was simply Lester’s idea that he threw out in closing arguments, and the boys ran with that and by no means did again down and settle for the truth that they could have been abused,” she continued.
Thornton hopes for a resentencing of the brothers — who had been convicted in 1996 — and never a brand new trial.
“I hope they aren’t tried once more. I hope they’re merely resentenced as a result of I believe a brand new trial would value hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and put on everyone out for no good motive.”
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