Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clean-cut defendants with a seemingly clear motive for the murders. A riveting, controversial and protracted televised trial. And a jury decision that stunned many Americans, who had thought that the only possible outcome of the trial was a guilty verdict. But at least in the case of young Lyle and Erik Menendez, accused of shooting their parents in August 1989, the prosecutors get the chance to try it all over again...
With little fuss, and in a town still nursing a hangover from its last famous murder trial, opening arguments began last week in the Menendez retrial; the original concluded in January 1994 with two hung juries. The outlines of the case remain the same. Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 18 at the time of the murders, have confessed to shooting their parents Jose and Kitty as they watched television in their Beverly Hills living room. Erik, now 24, will again be represented by Leslie Abramson (although this time she will be paid by the county to the tune...
...prevent the prosecution, or anyone else, from talking to TV reporters about the case. The state's new team, headed by deputy district attorney David Conn, insists that this time the prosecution will focus on the murders themselves, rather than get derailed by the defense's claims that Lyle and Erik were sexually and emotionally abused by their parents...
...lawyer Stephen Jones, counsel for Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, reports, "I only did one, and I regretted it then, and I would never repeat the same mistake. I think it's irresistible to play to the gallery." Late last week the judge who will retry Erik and Lyle Menendez on charges of murdering their parents barred cameras from those proceedings to "protect the rights of the parties, the dignity of the courts.'' Both those precious commodities, most observers agree, will need some rehabilitation after the Trial of the Century...
...earliest and most successful products of these publishers is the Anarchist Cookbook, which was put out in 1971 by Lyle Stuart Inc. But to bomb-squad commanders, the most notorious publisher is Paladin Press in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 1970 by two Special Forces veterans of the Vietnam War. The company carries a catalog of 40 books and videos on how to make explosives, including the Improvised Munitions Black Book series-repackaged versions of military manuals with instructions for building explosives. Paladin's list also carries Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival, about which one catalog edition says, "Serious...