dollars. they were spending money like they were drunken sailors. now lyle and erik menendez face the death penalty, first-degree murder. greedy rich kids kill ozzie and harriet on a sunday night in beverly hills, and there s much more to the story than that. the courtroom at the l.a. superior courthouse in van nuys was actually a very tiny courtroom, and so there were a dozen media people that got to see the trial in the courtroom every day. writer dominic dunn appeared to hear opening statements. i m just a writer here covering this. i had just gotten out of school and started as a cub reporter at this legal newspaper. i got one of the seats in the courtroom. there were the lawyers and the brothers. my editors and i knew from the get-go that it was going to be captivating as [bleep]. okay, now opening statements by the prosecution. thank you, your honor, and good morning. the only time i ve ever thrown up during a trial was right before opening statement
tammi and i talk about what happened that night, and i tell her everything, and she s it s her love has allowed me to really begin the long road to healing. at the end of it all, the menendez brothers were sentenced both to life in prison, but still today, questions remain about what their motive was and whether or not killing their parents was actually justified. yes, i do. please take the stand i heard iteration after iteration after iteration of their stories, and i went through believing them and not believing them. i ve never been able to come to my own conclusion about exactly why it happened. i always thought that lyle was the pathological problem. he was the older brother. he exerted incredible, if not undue, influence on his younger brother. erik was probably smarter than lyle, even though he didn t