that s exactly it. i couldn t have said it better myself. i m going to read aloud a social media response. hang on for just a second in case i want to defer to you. what do we have, katherine? it says, victim gender bias in sexual assault cases is a real thing. eric, i guess, is making your point, mark. i think that s exactly right. i think that you when i frame it in terms of, if this had been the menendez sisters or if eric had been erica, so to speak, i think lyle would have been lauded as a hero, and so i m not defending the any other idea but that they didn t get a fair second go around. be interesting to see how it plays out. mark geragos, thank you, appreciate it as always. thank you, good to see you. make sure you re going to
with overgrown bushes and exposed woodwork. might this have been a telltale clue, an owner would end up accused in the gilgo beach killer. i m going to speak to an fbi profiler of serial killers who had a great insight into what this guy might look like. and the menendez brothers were guilty of killing their parents with shotguns in 1989. could new evidence of the father s sexual abuse free them, and has society s understanding about such abuse changed in the three decades that they have been behind bars? lyle and eric menendez s defense attorney mark garrigos joins me next. and this future champ. and if we proffer it, we know you ll proffer it too.. he s cocky for a nineteen year old.
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syndrome had any applicability to two teenage boys. what difference do you see in terms of society that would impact the outcome of the case if they were tried today? i think there s been a sea change in the way we look at abuse and our understanding of it. i think that, you know, i ve told you in other forums that if they had been the menendez sisters, i don t think they would be in prison. and i think we now view or have come to understand abuse in a much more sophisticated way, i don t think they would have been convicted in today s milieu of murder. this is a classic of what s called the legal term, imperfect self-defense. right. in other words, you re not here advocating that they should have been acquitted from the get go, but rather saying they were convicted of the wrong charge and the lesser charge that mark geragos thinks is more appropriate, by now they d probably have been released. is that it?
there s been a lot of change in society and a lot of changed understanding relative to abuse. i mean, back then there was a question as to whether what we discussed as battered wife syndrome had any applicability to two teenage boys. what difference do you see in terms of society that would impact the outcome of the case if they were tried today? i think there s been a sea change in the way we look at abuse and our understanding of it. i think that, you know, i ve told you in other forums that if they had been the menendez sisters, i don t think they would be in prison. and i think we now view or have come to understand abuse in a much more sophisticated way, i don t think they would have been convicted in today s milieu of murder. i think this was a classic example of what s called the legal term, imperfect self-defense. right.