Murder & The Menendez Brothers: A Court TV Mystery - Episode 6: The Black Box

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In December of 1993, after months of testimony from over one hundred witnesses, two juries – one for Lyle Menendez and one for his brother Eric – began deliberations. And like every aspect of the Menendez brothers story the results were shocking and dramatic. Two hung juries. Two mistrials. And a nation left feeling justice had not been served…yet. It would take three more years before a second trial determined the brother’s fate, but was justice served and would the results be the same if the brother’s face a jury of their peers today? For more Court TV and to see our coverage of the first Menendez trial on demand, go to CourtTV.com. To see courtroom proceedings involving Erik Menendez’s jury deliberations, click here. To see courtroom proceedings involving Lyle Menendez’s jury deliberations, click here.

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0:00.0	Justice, they say, is blind. At least we like to think it is.
0:05.0	We like to think when Eric and Lyle Menendez stepped into the courtroom,
0:09.0	they faced the righteous and impartial judgment of their peers.
0:12.0	We like to think that a trial will tell us the whole
0:14.9	story, make what's right and what's wrong as clear as night and day. But in reality, most crimes are
0:22.2	like a plane crash.
0:24.0	The only way to understand them is to look into the black box and hope what's inside that box will explain the senseless bloody mess at our feet.
0:33.0	To fix it, we have to understand how and why it happened.
0:38.0	But parasite?
0:40.0	That's a black box we can't open.
0:42.0	We can't look into the minds of Eric or Lyle to see their memories of abuse or hear a distinct moment they decided to murder for money.
0:50.0	We can't know for sure whether the killing of Jose and Kitty Menendez was justified.
0:55.0	The best we can do is present what we do know to a jury and hope they can look at the wreckage
1:01.0	and put the pieces back together.
1:05.2	I'm your host Vinny Palitan and this is Murder and the Menendez Brothers, a court TV mystery.
1:13.7	I'm a former prosecutor and journalist and now lead anchor for court TV.
1:19.6	Today, episode six, the Black Box. in the menendez trial the juries were never seen on
1:26.9	TV but figuratively speaking all eyes were on them one of California's most notorious crime stories was heading
1:35.0	into its final phase. They have admitted killing their parents. Now two juries
1:41.2	will decide whether their parents drove them to it.
1:44.7	After five months, both juries were beginning deliberations.
1:48.6	It was 1994.
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