As well as to support the sexual abuse, which played an integral part of the events leading up to the shooting This was done to present why Erik was afraid of his parents. She presented witness and expert testimony, as well as medical records and photographs as evidence of the abuse. Leslie’s co attorney was Marcia Morrissey. Although she argued in her closing statements, that it really wasn't all that unreasonable of a belief. A genuine but unreasonable fear for ones life. Leslie tried to obtain a manslaughter conviction for her client based on the law of imperfect self defence. Leslie had argued imperfect self-defense, and reasoned that Erik had killed his parents out of fear due to years of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, the sexual abuse being the catalyst for the events that led up to the killings. Leslie had been hired to represent Erik Menendez after he and his brother Lyle, were arrested for the 1989 murders of their parents. She was able to prove that Parwez had an alibi, and likely couldn’t have been the one who killed his son. Khalid Parwez, who was accused of strangling and dismembering his 11-year-old son. In 1990, Leslie gained an acquittal for her client Dr. Leslie had argued that Arnel killed out of fear because his father was abusive. In 1988, Leslie managed to obtain a verdict of manslaughter with a sentence of probation for her client, 17-year-old Arnel Salvatierra, who had killed his father. It was a multiple murderer named Ricky Sanders who shot eleven people in a walk-in freezer in a Bob’s Big Boy restaurant, killing four of them. Out of all the death penalty cases she had, only one of her clients receive the death penalty.
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She was twice name trial lawyer of the year by the LA criminal Court bar Association. During this time as a private attorney, Leslie developed a reputation as a fierce advocate for her clients. She worked there for six years until 1976 after which she entered private practice. Leslie was admitted to the state bar of California a year later in 1970.Īfter being admitted to the state bar of California, Leslie began her career as a public defender in the Los Angeles county public defenders office. Following her graduation from Queens College, she moved across the country to California and attended UCLA School of Law and earned a Juris Doctor (J.D) in 1969.
As a young adult, she attended Queens College and eventually graduated. Leslie was born on Octoin Flushing, Queens, New York.
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