Menendez brothers seek freedom with new evidence of sexual abuse allegations.

The Menendez brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents in 1996, have filed a court petition to vacate their convictions, citing new evidence from a documentary series alleging that their father sexually assaulted a former underage member of Menudo. The brothers have long claimed that they were acting in self-defense after years of abuse by their parents. The new evidence includes a letter written by Erik Menendez to his cousin, suggesting that the alleged sexual abuse continued as recently as months before the deadly shootings. The petition asks for an evidentiary hearing or for the convictions and sentences to be vacated.