Word: jose
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Assistant Managing Editor: Jose M. Ferrer...
Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich began her closing argument last Wednesday by tacking a single picture to the courtroom bulletin board. The full-color glossy showed the TV room of the Menendez mansion in Beverly Hills, California, patriarch Jose lifeless on a couch, his wife Kitty in a smashed and bloodied heap on the floor. In blunt language that veered from the schoolmarmish to the sarcastic, Bozanich delivered her message: "Lyle Menendez, accompanied by his brother, planned this murder . . . this was an intentional killing...
...Kitty ripped Lyle's toupee from his head. The scene supposedly so shocked Erik that to assuage his brother's humiliation, the younger Menendez confessed to his sibling that he was being continually abused by their father. Lyle allegedly then began thinking of ways of saving his brother from Jose. Pisarcik testified, however, that Erik couldn't have been shocked by his brother's bald pate because the previous spring Erik had told her that Lyle wore a hairpiece...
...therapy session the brothers had with Dr. Jerome Oziel on Dec. 11, 1989. On that 61-minute tape, which the defense struggled for three years to suppress, Lyle said they had killed Kitty to put her "out of her misery" over her loveless marriage, making a joint decision that Jose "should be killed" because of "what he's doing to my mother." Hoping to discredit Oziel, defense lawyers offered extensive testimony from / the married therapist's former lover. "The defense proved that Dr. Oziel was a philanderer," Bozanich said. "They did not prove that Dr. Oziel could not work...
Assistant Managing Editor: Jose M. Ferrer...