Attorney for Erik Menendez Breaks Silence on Ryan Murphy’s Monsters Series
Leslie provided a written statement regarding the brothers, who are both serving life sentences without parole, in the new documentary The Menendez Brothers, available for streaming on Netflix.
In an email shown in the documentary, she expressed, “30 years is a long time. I’d like to leave the past in the past. No amount of media, nor teenage petitions will alter the fate of these clients. Only the court can do that and they have ruled.”
The release of Monsters reignited interest in the brothers’ case, with social media users calling for their convictions to be overturned. Recently, attention has focused on the emergence of potential new evidence that could support the brothers’ claims of physical and sexual abuse by their father, José Menendez.
Kim Kardashian, who visited the Menendez brothers at their San Diego prison in September, expressed in an essay published by NBC News that the brothers deserve a new trial.
“I have spent time with Lyle and Erik; they are not monsters,” the Kardashians star stated in the op-ed. “They are kind, intelligent, and honest men.”