Should the Menendez Brothers Be Free?

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Why this closed case from 1989 is suddenly back in the news—and why the brothers may yet be freed. Guest: Brian Buckmire, ABC Legal Contributor with a segment on GMA3, “Better Call Brian.” Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The other day my 16 year old came home from school and asked mom, why is my Tik-Tock feed feed full of the Menendez brothers?
0:15.0	This is a reasonable question.
0:17.0	The Menendez brothers, Lyle and Eric,
0:20.0	they committed a terrible crime more than 30 years ago.
0:23.9	They were sentenced to life in prison.
0:27.0	Eric and I killed our parents together, so I'd say that makes us pretty close.
0:35.0	But the Menendez brothers are having a moment.
0:38.0	There's a mini series about them on Netflix,
0:41.0	and there's a documentary too.
0:44.0	Everyone asks why we do their parents.
0:47.0	Maybe now people can understand.
0:49.0	And those Tik-Tok videos, my kid kids seeing. A lot of them are made by people who are openly wondering,
0:57.0	should these two men still be behind bars?
1:01.0	No one's arguing that they didn't kill their parents, but they're saying the level of culpability would be so low that after 35, 36 years, they should be out.
1:11.0	Brian Buckmeyer is a criminal defense attorney and a contributor to ABC News.
1:16.2	I called him up because I wanted someone to walk me through how we got here.
1:20.7	As someone who came of age around the time the Menendez brothers were arrested,
1:24.0	their sudden re-emergence has taken me by surprise.
1:28.0	And last week, the facts of the Menendez case
1:31.0	suddenly became very relevant right now.
1:34.3	Good afternoon.
1:36.1	My name is Mark Garragas.
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