In another segment, he points to a picture of Jose Menendez and says, “That’s the man here that raped me. “I know what he did to me in his house,” Rosselló, now 54, says in the series. Jose Menendez was an executive at RCA Records, which signed Menudo to a recording contract. To bolster their contention, the attorneys also cited allegations that surfaced last month in a Peacock documentary series, in which Roy Rosselló - a former member of the boy band Menudo - alleged that Jose Menendez drugged and sexually assaulted him when he was about 14 years old during a visit to the Menendez home in New Jersey in 1983 or 1984. Just as the defense had argued all along.”
In court papers, Menendez brothers attorneys Mark Geragos and Cliff Gardner write that the new evidence “not only shows that Jose Menendez was very much a violent and brutal man who would sexually abuse children, but it strongly suggests that - in fact - he was still abusing Erik Menendez as late as December 1988. Every night I stay up thinking he might come in. … I never know when it’s going to happen and it’s driving me crazy. It’s still happening Andy, but it’s worse for me now.
In the letter, Erik Menendez writes in part, “I’ve been trying to avoid dad. They have repeatedly appealed their convictions to no avail. The brothers were both sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The second trial, which began in October 1995 and lacked much of the testimony centered on allegations of sexual abuse by Jose Menendez, ended with both brothers being convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy. The brothers’ first trial ended with jurors unable to reach verdicts, deadlocking between first-degree murder and lesser charges including manslaughter. Prosecutors, however, said the killings were financially motivated, pointing to lavish spending sprees by the brothers after the killings and arguing they were guilty of first-degree murder. Erik Menendez, now 52, and Lyle Menendez, now 55, never denied carrying out the killings, but contended they were repeatedly sexually assaulted by their father and feared for their lives.Īs a result, defense attorneys argued that the brothers “did not harbor the mental state needed for first-degree murder and were therefore guilty of manslaughter.”
Jose Menendez and his wife, Mary Louise, or “Kitty,” were gunned down by their sons in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. Potentially reopening one of Southern California’s most notorious murder cases, attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez filed court papers Wednesday contending that newly surfaced evidence warrants the overturning of the brothers’ convictions for killing their parents in 1989.
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