"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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🗓️ 1 October 2025
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Summary
- Examining the new evidence, there wasn't enough to warrant a new trial for the Menendez Brothers.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. Lyle and Eric Menendez will not be getting out of jail. |
| 0:07.2 | Lawyers were the brothers convicted of killing both parents, Jose and Kitty, filed a petition with the court signing two new pieces of evidence. |
| 0:15.8 | They claim the evidence supports claims of sex abuse. L.A. Superior Court Judge William Ryan rejected the motion saying the new evidence was not compelling |
| 0:25.8 | enough to produce a reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one juror. |
| 0:32.5 | Lyle and Eric Menendez will be eligible to apply for parole again in three short years. |
| 0:38.5 | Straight out to Drew Nelson for more. |
| 0:42.0 | Nancy, Judge William C. Ryan ruled those two additional pieces of evidence were not strong |
| 0:46.8 | enough to reopen the case. Judge Ryan denying Eric and Lyle Menendez's 2023 habeas corpus |
| 0:53.1 | petition, closing off another path to freedom, less than a |
| 0:56.3 | month after both men were denied parole. Their attorneys argued that those two items uncovered in |
| 1:01.2 | recent years warranted a new trial. The first, a 1998 letter written by Eric to his cousin Andy Canoe, |
| 1:07.5 | describing sexual abuse by their father, Jose Menendez. The second was a statement from former Minuto singer Roy Rosello, who claimed Jose raped him in 1983. |
| 1:17.1 | An allegation made public in the 2023 docu series Menendez plus Minuto boys betrayed. |
| 1:23.7 | Judge Ryan said neither item met the legal threshold to justify a retrial. He wrote, quote, |
| 1:28.7 | neither piece of newly discovered evidence is particularly strong. He said the letter, |
| 1:33.2 | quote, contradicts in part the testimony of Eric Ann Canoe and, quote, does not additionally |
| 1:38.8 | inform the jury of petitioner's alleged fear at the time of the murders. Judge Ryan added that the Minuto |
| 1:44.9 | allegation, quote, corroborates the general allegation that Jose was sexually abusive of boys and |
| 1:50.4 | young men, but it is not relevant to the petitioner's state of mind at the time of the murders. |
| 1:55.2 | District Attorney Nathan Hockman praised the ruling, calling it, quote, a full kibosh on the |
| 2:00.3 | brother's attempt to overturn their |
| 2:01.7 | convictions. Quote, this petition does not come close to meeting the factual or legal standard |
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