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Some curious bit players steal the scene as the murder trial of the Menendez brothers approaches

The Beverly Hills police department must dread having to haul local teenage millionaires off to jail for a grisly crime: the tabloids swarm, the rumors fly, the suspects hire the best defense lawyers money can buy -- and all those involved (even the minor players) act as if they are characters in the first draft of a convoluted screenplay desperately in need of a rewrite. Thus it has been several miserable months for the prosecutors in charge of the Menendez murder investigation; they are fielding two young millionaires, charges of patricide, disputed psychotherapy records and flamboyant defense attorneys claiming that vital...

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