NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Thursday, March 21. 1996 5A Retrial yields convictions for Menendez brothers The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — In a decisive rejection of the abuse defense that almost succeeded the first time, Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted of first-degree murder yesterday in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents and could be sentenced to death. Lyle, 28, and Erik, 25, appeared extremely pale but showed no emotion upon hearing the jury's verdict, which was reached after four days of deliberations in the brothers' retrial. "I feel great," prosecutor David Conn said as he left the courtroom. Two years ago, the brothers' first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors couldn't decide whether the 1989 slayings of entertainment executive Jose Menendez and his wife, Kitty, at their Beverly Hills mansion were premeditated murder or self-defense. Lyle Menendez This time, the jury rejected the defense claim that the brothers murdered their parents after years of sexual abuse. Instead, it embraced the prosecution theory that the killings were planned and that the brothers were greedy, spoiled brats who murdered to get their parents' $14 million fortune. The jury further decided that the murders were pre- mediated, a circumstance that can bring the death penalty. The penalty phase begins Monday. The jury will decide whether the brothers should receive lethal injections or life in prison without parole. The defense suffered a serious setback in the final days of testimony when Judge Stanley Weisberg announced he was ruling out use of the imperfect self-defense theory. That theory holds that a killing by someone believes he is in imminent danger can be justifiable even if that belief was unreasonable. Weisberg also barred the defense from calling almost 40 witnesses The verdict was a badly needed victory for District Attorney Gil Garcetti, who is running for re-election and who has gotten a reputation for an inability to win the big cases, including the Menendez brothers' first trial, and the trials of O.J. Simpson and rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg. Garcetti had insisted on retrying the Menendez brothers, refusing to plea bargain. Erik Menendez The jury could have found the brothers guilty of lesser counts — manslaughter in the slaying of their father and second-degree murder in the killing of their mother. Instead, the brothers were convicted of premeditated first-degree murder in the ambush slayings, which took place as their parents watched television. --deserve such special treatment would be if national security was involved. --deserve such special treatment would be if national security was involved. 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