Lawyer Breaks Down How Public Opinion in Cases Like Menendez Brothers Is
Influencing the Court of Law
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00:00I feel like we see that more and more, and I feel like we're almost seeing that maybe in the Menendez case too,
00:04because they had such a resurgence with the Netflix documentary. So many people are now interested in
00:10calling for them to be released from prison after 30 years. Do you feel like that is another way
00:15where the court of public opinion may be influencing?
00:19Absolutely, no doubt at all. That's a Netflix court of public opinion.
00:23You know, we have had, with most of the streamers like Netflix, Amazon, they take the view that if
00:29they say, look, although there are facts out there, we do not actually, this is not a factual
00:35broadcast, this is, you know, there's basically been poetic license allowed. That's not enough,
00:40it's not enough in my jurisdictions. And bearing in mind, of course, Netflix, Amazon, they broadcast
00:46globally. So we have quite a number of cases ongoing at the moment. And this is a big issue,
00:51that they will rely on their disclaimer at the beginning. Now, in the Menendez brothers case,
00:57you know, I don't know, I mean, probably they took the view that they're incarcerated,
01:02they've been found guilty years ago. There was very little risk in maybe going down this route.
01:09Obviously, their lawyers have decided otherwise, again, I wouldn't be competent to speak,
01:13I don't know all the full facts. But a writ of habeas corpus is a very unusual step. It is
01:18available on both sides of the Atlantic. But it's basically in which to overturn everything. Although
01:22I think they're going for the term, like the sentence first, and then they're holding back
01:27on going for the actual conviction of both of them. But it's probably another Netflix drama
01:33in there. Yeah, no, I would say to be continued. Do you feel like it's probable that they could
01:39be released? Because I guess there's some there's new evidence and things like that.
01:43Yeah, I think it's very much, it will be a massive uphill struggle. And I think probably
01:49two things might be taken into account by the court, the fact that they've done 30 years or
01:55whatever. And the fact that maybe there's a background doubt, whatever that might be,
02:00I don't know how strong it is, or whatever. That might, might affect their sentence. You know,
02:07there might be a court may be persuaded to just, but you wouldn't know. I mean, it's really, you
02:14know, this is a world we're living in now. And people can now discuss all these things. I mean,
02:19Johnny Depp, Amber Heard case, a prime example. Yeah. I mean, I'd acted for him years ago,
02:24and we're happily married. And but you know, the battle was absolutely most vicious battle
02:30in any court. But the US case, like there was the tick tock, I think that was the first time
02:36that tick tock really had come to the fore. Now, who knows what the outcome would be? And who knows,
02:42did they influence the outcome? Nobody knows that there. But it was a very fact that the sheer scale
02:48of it, you know, so that's the code of social media opinion. And that,
02:53again, is gonna be a big, big problem for most people going forward. Yeah.