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The case resulted in an 18-month preliminary hearing and a 17-month trial, the second-longest murder trial in California history.

In petitions seeking a new trial, the brothers’ attorneys have cited the fresh sex-abuse allegations against Jose Menendez as evidence critical to their self-defense claims.

During the two-week trial, the jury heard Miah created a "smokescreen" of companies to mislead investigators, while he was actually running the entire operation himself.

In other messages highlighted during the trial, the woman texted Way: "You body slammed me on my head and choked me", and "I should have just let you hit me."

During the trial, the prosecution outlined that McCourt was the last person to see Mr Heagney alive, the last person to have telephone contact with him and that traces of Mr Heagney's blood were found at an address of McCourt's.