there was something the jury did not know about it was given to me recently by a Melinda's relative had written to his cousin Andy about his father it's still happening Andy but it's worse for me now I can't explain it he is so overweight I can't stand to see him I never know when it's going to happen and it's driving me crazy every night I stay up thinking he might come in I need to put it out of my mind I know what you said before but I am afraid the judge said the letter was
not necessarily evidence of sexual abuse and ruled it inadmissible most of the jurors believ the brothers and acquitted them the others said they were guilty of second degree murder the court is a mistrial and that completes this uh hearing jurors have told the jury they are unable to reach a verdict hopelessly deadlocked in their second trial they had the same judge Stanley Weisberg but this time the judge banned TV cameras the interesting thing about the menendez's second trial that retrial they were tried just a few days after OJ was found not guilty the acquit of
OJ Simpson produced tremendous crime controversy we the jury find the defendant orthal James Simpson not guilty of the crime of murder it too was a medeor circus which put pressure on the prosecutor and judge in the second Menendez trial for anyone to say that what takes place in the courtroom blocks out what is going on outside is absurd I've covered these trials when you open those double doors leaving a courtroom and you see the media when there are hotels and bars around the courthouse where people are going to talk about this trial no human judge
jury prosecutor defense attorney can be immune to this in the second trial judge Weissberg excluded most of the testimony about abuse except from the brothers themselves the judge in the second trial gutted the defense Chris Pixley is Eric's current lawyer he says that the unadmitted testimony about abuse was crucial Eric and ly were forced to carry the entire defense on their backs and you know jurors are are understand concerned about the veracity of a criminal defendant whose life is on the line telling them the truth when they sit in the witness chair very different second
trial night and day again the the brothers really were forced to carry the second trial