Democracy Dies in Darkness

SENTENCED TO SILENCE

SCRAPPY MENENDEZ LAWYER LESLIE ABRAMSON BITES BACK

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LOS ANGELES -- The most dramatic part of the Menendez trial -- the retrial, that is -- was not watching two ghostly young men sit in silence as a prosecutor demanded their deaths for the crime of murdering their parents.

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It was watching their star attorney sit in silence as a colleague pleaded for their lives in her stead.

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