The Defense would argue that both brothers suffered years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of their sadistic father. This abuse eventually made them snap when they believed their own lives to be in peril. The Prosecution would assert something far more sinister, though - that the brothers were only after the hard-earned fortune of their immigrant father who had managed to achieve the American Dream for him and his family. Both sides agreed on one fact: Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents. But did the eventual punishment fit the crime, given the many horrors that preceded it? Hear Michael's and Karla's unsolicited feedback on this classic 90s case!
