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Ooh, let me tell you about what happened this past week.

And this has to do with the Menendez brothers. Remember the two brothers

that ended up killing their parents? And they were, I think, 19 and 21. And they have to, well, they got life in prison without possibility of parole.

Lyle and Eric Menendez.

And there were two trials.

The first one was a hung jury because the trial lasted for months and months or over 100 witnesses

and a lot of the trial happened to be involved with the abuse that Eric underwent by his father.

And he described in very specific detail what his father did to him.

Just total sexual abuse and humiliation.

I mean, brutal stuff.

And his brother knew all about it and couldn't do anything.

And there was evidence that was produced over and over again, and the jury deadlocked. The jury couldn't come to a conclusion because of

all that evidence of abuse, particularly, at least that's what the experts say. So the judge gets

really pissed off. Judges do not like mistrials.

They do not like sitting on these very long, very complex trials.

And in the end, the jury says we can't decide.

So a retry.

And a couple of things happen.

The judge doesn't allow a lot of this evidence regarding the sexual abuse

and part of it was at that time when we're talking 35 years ago people didn't believe that

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