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Flor Soria is the housekeeper of Monadez's house and lives in Monadez's house from Monday to Friday.Fluer told the jury that she had never heard the Monardezes yell at the children, nor did she hear the stories Lyle and Eric described between them and their parents in the week before the murders. quarrel. Lyle's ex-girlfriend, Jaime Bishahi, told the court that in the more than three years she had been with Lyle, Lyle had never brought up violence and abuse within the family.Moreover, Eric did not just know Lyle's wig shortly before the murder, as he said.In fact, Jamie had a conversation with Eric about wigs in 1988.

During the cross-examination, Lyle's defense attorney, Jill Lanson, slammed Jaime Bissassi as a gold digger who had always dreamed of marrying into the Monardez family, but then broke his faith after his fiancé's accident. down the well. Katie's brother, Brian Anderson, told the court the Monadez brothers were consistently generous with their parents' money but had no regrets when it came to their parents. Family affection, and often use some dirty words.Bryan recalled that Hosse told him more than once that Lyle had to learn to support himself and not rest on his parents' wealth for the rest of his life.

At cross-examination, the defense produced a copy of Brian Anderson's most recent application to the probate court.Because Katie died after Hosse in the course of the murder, in the few minutes between Hosse and Katie's death, Katie legally inherited Monaday according to the relevant part of the will, the application said. The entire property of the Zi family.Now, the sons of the couple are in prison for murder and have been deprived of inheritance rights, so the Anderson family should logically become the heirs of this huge property.The defendant's lawyer pointed out that Brian Anderson turned his gun on his nephews because he was planning to embezzle the property of the Monadez family.This kind of taking advantage of others' danger is the real lack of family affection.

Marlene Eisenberg was Jose Monadez's secretary for 14 years.She said that after the funeral, when she and the Monadez brothers left the funeral home in a black courtesy car, Lyle asked her, "Who says I can't fill my father's place?" Marlene told him he should "go yourself way, rather than trying to fill someone else's place".Lyle blew a long whistle and said, "You don't understand, that's my father's place." The prosecution also hired many expert witnesses, and during the trial, these experts have been sitting in the auditorium of the court, but none of them came to the witness stand to testify, because the chief public prosecutor Pame Bojanich was very confident. It is clear that the jury will not believe the "nonsense" of abuse and harassment within the Monadez family compiled by Lyle and Eric, nor will they believe the testimony of the defense's expert witnesses.Pame Berjanich's "paralysis and underestimation of the enemy" constituted a serious mistake in the prosecution's strategy.

The defense's rehearing or rebuttal hearing is very brief.The first witness, Dr. William Fikali, said that when he first met Eric in prison in June 1990, Eric told him about the various abuses he had suffered at home over the years.Eric even said that he "likes prison" because "for the first time in his life, he felt relaxed without pressure." The second witness was Mark Hoffernan.He testified against a prosecution witness, electrician Grant Walker, who said he was the Monardez brothers' tennis coach in the summer of 1989, but that he was not with Lyle at Monadez on the afternoon of August 19 of that year. Playing tennis in the backyard of the Nadez family.In fact, that day was the day the Monadez family was whaling in the Pacific Ocean.

In December 1993, the audience in the courtroom and people concerned about the case in the society finally waited for the concluding speeches of both parties. Defense attorney Mike Porter, representing Lyle, first analyzed the state of mind of the Monadez brothers before the murders, saying it was a form of fear and panic that had developed after "years of harassment and abuse." "Mentality. On the night of August 20, 1989, Lyle was like a "non-thinking robot", driven by his "instinct" rather than a well-arranged plan to pull the trigger. The prosecution's Pam Bojanich told jurors: "This is not a very complicated case. Two people were watching TV and were killed by their sons." Before the incident, the two The murderer made a special trip to San Diego to buy the murder weapon, etc., which probably cannot be explained by "instinct" or "robot".On the audiotape provided by psychiatrist Dr. Geromi Ozer, Lyle said that the two brothers had argued for a long time beforehand whether Eric could not participate in the murder because he did not have the guts, but Lyle insisted that he Can't do it alone.Clearly, this bloody murder was not the result of the "spur of the moment" described by the defense.

Lyle's attorney, Jill Lanson, told the court that the murder case was not isolated and that the entire incident "should be traced back to the harassment and abuse that the defendants have suffered since childhood". Pame Berjanich retorted: "In this country, there are so many children who have been abused who have become useful people in society. In contrast, Mona, who grew up in a rich and gentle country The Daz brothers must be called a pair of devils." "These two spoiled, depraved, extravagant sons and daughters killed their parents, and then used their parents' money to buy themselves the best defense. "

Eric's defense attorney Leslie Aranson's concluding remarks lasted for three days. After she refuted the testimony of the prosecution witnesses one by one, she said: "There is no evidence that Eric has killed people in this case. ""He shouldn't be killing for Lyle." Before the 24 jurors left to deliberate, Judge Stanley Weisberg explained to them that the verdict on the case could be one of three options: first-degree or premeditated murder, second-degree or intentional homicide, and Manslaughter.In view of the fact that the defendant has already confessed to the criminal facts, there is no such thing as "not guilty" in this case.