Menendez Brothers Say There’s New Evidence Backing Up Sex Abuse Allegations Against Dad

The Menendez Brothers wish to have their day in court docket … once more … they are saying they’ve new proof backing up their protection that their father was sexually abusing them.

According to new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Erik and Lyle Menendez say they’ve a letter Erik despatched to their cousin, Andy Cano, months earlier than the shootings … the place Erik accuses their father, Jose, of sexual abuse.

In the letter, which the brothers declare wasn’t proven to the jury at trial, Erik says he needs he may inform his mother concerning the alleged abuse however says he cannot danger it as a result of he feared she would inform Jose … and he additionally tells Andy his father is constant to molest him.

The Menendez Brothers say the letter was despatched round 8 months earlier than they shot and killed their mother and father, and so they argue it helps their protection concept that Jose was sexually abusing them and warned them to not communicate out about being molested, to the purpose the place they turned terrified of their father.

The second piece of proof entails Menudo band member Roy Rosselló‘s current bombshell allegation about Jose.

Remember … Roy claims in a brand new Peacock collection, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” that he believes he was drugged and sexually assaulted by Jose.

The Menendez Brothers say jurors by no means heard from Roy both, and so they declare if the jury knew about Roy’s allegations and the letter, issues may need turned out in a different way and so they may need purchased the protection’s concept that the brothers had been responsible of manslaughter, as a substitute of homicide.

Erik and Jose are petitioning for a writ of habeas corpus, asking the court docket to grant the petition and decide whether or not the brand new proof is sufficient to grant them a brand new trial or different aid.

Attorney Alan Jackson talked to us in April about the potential of the Menendez brothers getting a brand new trial … and he did not appear to assume it was seemingly, and advised us precisely why.