re: The Growing Movement to release the Parricidal Menendez Brothers…

I believe he was molesting them. I didn't at the time. I now think I was wrong. But they really makes no LEGAL difference to me for all the reasons everyone has elucidated here. Although it does give a slightly more understandable psychological/criminal motivation.

I would love to see the breakdown by SEX of those who want them to stay incarcerated and those who don't. I'm guessing a huge percentage of their support are under 40 women who are much more sympathetic to such things.

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They blew their parents heads off with a shotgun.

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IF the pedo parents thing is true, then sounds like those boys did right.

Any parent that knows and turns away deserves to be hanged 1st. Than the molester. Publicly.

Maybe the "evidence" was always there. I think in 1990 I saw the smirks and just thought it was phony and it rings true now. The way they slowly revealed it. The character traits of the father which is almost universally consistent from coworkers and family. The way they incredibly-weirdly wanted to defend their dad's reputation after they blew his brains out. Kind of like the psychological behavior that an earlier poster wrote, it is all rape-trauma type response. And then the contemporaneous stuff from family members.

But in the end, I don't have any special insight or opinion. I could be 100% wrong and I'm not married to any of it. It's just more of a hunch based on observation of human behavior.

They very well could get a new trial based on the letter Erik wrote to his cousin before the murders talking about abuse by his father that was found in some storage locker or something. In the last trial the judge limited the testimony of alleged abuse. Another televised Menendez trial would be….. interesting

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IF the pedo parents thing is true, then sounds like those boys did right.

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IF is a big word. I can tell you for sure they blew their heads off with a shotgun.

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What's the evidence of this other than the statements provided by the brothers AFTER the double murder?

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I think one of the Menundo group members recently said he got raped by the dad. It was probably Ricky Martin since he caught the ghey.

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But they wanted the money

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BINGO!

This is the real reason right here. IMO, they wanted their inheritance. Which is why they knocked the mom off too. Needed her outta the way because they likely knew she had power of attorney over the dad's estate in the event of his passing. Not because they wanted to "end her suffering". That's horse & bullshite mixed together.

Well documented that they went on a lavish spending spree shortly after, all while playing up the victim card that their parents were just brutally murdered.

They could have left the abusive parental relationship. But that would mean they likely would have had to give up their privileged lifestyle. They intentionally did NOT choose that path.

They CHOSE to kill their parents & create a false alibi. Only when they realized the gig was up after the one brother spilled the beans, did they again play the victim card. Those motherfrickers are sociopaths. Through & through.

Were their parents pieces of shite?? By all accounts. YES.
Did the dad sexually abuse both boys?? Allegedly. But no evidence was ever produced beyond a reasonable doubt.
Did both boys lie in wait to murder their parents with shotguns? YES.

The sexual abuse angle in my opinion was brought on by their legal defense team who were likely motivated by the national attention that the case was getting, but more so for the potential of a huge payday considering the father's estate.

Greed was the motivation behind the murder of those two folks, plain & simple. Erik & Lyle don't deserve to step foot outside of a prison for the remainder of their days.

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were not held against their will, went into their parents house, were not threatened at time of murder thus no self defense, and murdered their dad. Oh and then murdered their mom who never physically abused them.

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This.

They weren't trapped. This was premeditated. They also killed the mom who they even say never touched them. Then they went on a spending spree.

This isn't kids trapped in their parents' house feeling like they can't escape any other way. This wasn't them in the middle of being abused protecting themselves.

Can all victims of abuse shoot their abusers years later in a premeditated fashion? That's the precedent we'd set.

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You nor anybody will ever have any evidence the mother was in on sexually assaulting her children.

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Exactly. The defense attorneys knew that.

Their two main evidential arguments to prove sexual abuse were:

A.) testimony from an aunt that claimed when Eric was 9 or 10 years old, he allegedly told her he was sexually abused by his father. The Aunt then claimed that she confronted the mom about it, to which she denied. Then the Aunt admits that it was never mentioned again. She never talked to Eric about it, nor the parents.

B.) naked photos of the boys when they were young that were found in the house. the claim that the dad, being the sexual predator that he was, took these photos & kept them because he was a pedophile.

None of the above can be definitively proven to be true. The jury also saw through all that BS.