Only requested that Erik and Lyle be released because he was behind by double digits in the polls and believed that loving the brothers would help him gain votes.
Mark Geragos, Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, complained about the prosecutors’ presentation, which went on for over two and a half hours, and criticized them for focusing.
Solely on the 1980s and 1990s in their “SNL skit” and ignoring the Menendez brothers’ accomplishments over the more than three decades that have passed.
When Geragos’ time came, he concentrated on Erik and Lyle’s attempts to change their ways while inside. He told the court about a prisons officer who said he would welcome Lyle to live.
In his neighborhood and another prisoner who credited the brothers for making the prison’s outdoor spaces more aesthetically pleasing with plants and murals.