Lyle and Erik Menendez

them to do things that are unexpected. At this time the person has been corrupted by power, like the Menendez brothers who were corrupted by greed and the ambition to be richer. The Menendez brothers are two men who were at one point in time very fortunate money wise and it all went downhill . The two brothers lived in Beverly Hills,California with both of their wealthy parents Kitty and Jose Menendez in a rich neighborhood. The world knows that the boys were rich all of their lives but their actual

Lyle and Erik Menendez were two young men who seemed to live an extravagant lifestyle with their parents, Jose and Mary Louise known as Kitty. Their father, Jose, worked very hard to provide his family with everything they could need, but this came with repercussions. Jose was extremely tough on the brothers starting at a very young age. Always placing high expectations on them for school, sports, and work, and one day they boys finally snapped. On August 20th, 1989, Lyle and Erik murdered their

America's infatuation with criminal cases and the convictions of convicts set the scene for shows like Criminal Minds and Law and Order. My fascination with these cases started when I was a little girl. I would research cases and trials constantly; it is the reason I want to become a criminal lawyer. The fact that one person could be sentenced to life in prison or even death based on the beliefs of 12 people is astonishing. My favorite kind of cases were the high profile ones. The ones that make

Theodore Dreiser’s, An American Tragedy is a prime example of how social tensions between the rich and the poor and the vicious need to rise to the top can lead to abandonment. The protagonist, Clyde Griffiths is filled with the willingness to rise far above and looks down upon his peers. After being represented and invited to see the luxurious ways of the rich Clyde decides to abandon loose threads that can threaten his rise to the top. Clyde is easily influenced by others which later on leads

In many short stories there is a major theme that is shown though literary devices. These themes connect to modern day society and overall have very deep meanings that sometimes have to do with the author's life or experiences.Margaret Atwood uses many literary devices to prove her theme and her motive behind writing her stories. Throughout her stories there are many clues and ideas that spark when reading due to Atwood and her writing. In “Stone Mattress”, Margaret Atwood establishes that revenge

A Streetcar Named Desire begins the play by painting the audience a clear picture of very unique, downtown New Orleans. In a small, complex city building lives Stella and her Polish husband, Stanley. Throughout the first three acts, Mr. Tennessee Williams has introduced Stella’s sister, Blanche, and made readers question her reason for coming to stay with Stella and Stanley. Blanche and Stella seemed to have grown up in a small, family-inherited plantation in Mississippi called Belle Reve. All of

On the night of August 20, 1989 Lyle, age 21, and Erik Menendez, age 18, shot their parents, Jose and Kitty, to death with a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun in the den of the family’s Beverly Hills, California, home. After committing the murders they drove to Mulholland Drive, where they dumped the shot guns. They went to a local movie theater to buy tickets as an alibi. After attending the show, they returned home when Lyle frantically contacted the Beverly Hills police department and cried “Somebody

During the investigation, “Lyle and Erik told the officers that they were somewhere else at the time of the killings and they thought of possible people that would do such a thing. Lyle told the officers he thought the people who killed their parents might be someone who was in the Mafia” Menendez v. Terhune (2005). “Thee investigators and police officers picked up on Lyles suggestion and began to investigate that lead. To add to the “lead,” Lyle immediately hired body-guards to “protect” him twenty

On March 8th, 1990, Lyle was arrested on Elm Drive, driving Erik’s tan jeep on the suspicion of killing his parents. Erik was out of the country in Israel playing in an international tennis tournament, heard the news and took the first flight home. On March 11th, 1990, Erik surrendered at the Los Angeles International Airport upon his return from Israel. Just one day after Erik’s arrest, murder charges are filed against the brothers as District Attorney, Ira Reiner, claims both brothers murdered

This paper conducts research on Orenthal James ‘O.J.’ Simpson’s 1994 murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson-Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman, in which Simpson was acquitted.This trial is one of the most televised court cases in history. Once a well-rounded guy, Simpson born in San Francisco, had a successful college football career at USC, winning the Heisman Trophy. Simpson then went onto the NFL playing for the Buffalo Bills as a star running back. The O.J. Simpson trial was majorly sensationalized