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
to his little boy, and one of them was to stick tacks like this in his thighs and in his butt and to run needles across his penis. the defense attorneys had given these, you know, extraordinarily theatrical closing arguments. pam bozanich didn t have a lot of theatrics. don t assume that just because people have money, they can t be violent. i remember being really angry during my closing statement, and they bought the right ammunition. they bought the right guns. they killed their parents. look at these defendants. look at their crimes. look at what lyle menendez has tried to sell you as a defense. look at the lies that he has told you on the witness stand, and ask yourself can you believe anything that this man says? my hope was to make the jury think they were liars. she stood up and just very