Trial, The

Fox News’ court filing indicates that if the case goes to trial, the defense is likely to flood the zone with documentation of Smartmatic’s other legal problems over a number of years.

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."