The Menendez Brothers were convicted during a highly publicized trial in July 1996 for the shotgun killings of their parents in 1989.

The youth is accused of the shotgun killing of legal clerk Amaranath Bandaratilleke at a newsagent's shop in Hammersmith, west London, on February 22.

March 19 - In Los Angeles, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez are found guilty of first-degree murder for the shotgun killing of their parents.

Brothers Are Indigent No date has yet been set for their retrial in the shotgun killings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, on Aug. 20, 1989.

In the Bumpurs case, a police officer was acquitted of manslaughter in the shotgun killing of Mrs. Bumpurs, a 66-year-old black woman with a history of mental illness.

Mr. Goldstein was convicted in 1980 for the shotgun killing of John McGinest, 25, on Nov. 3, 1979, in an alley near Mr. Goldstein's home.

The man was convicted of the 1988 shotgun killing of a married couple along with their disabled grandson.

Separate juries are deliberating now in the biggest case of her career, the trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez, brothers charged with first-degree murder in the shotgun killings of their parents.

The man, Thomas Lee Goldstein, 55, left, was freed April 2 after prosecutors conceded that they lacked sufficient evidence to retry him for the 1979 shotgun killing of John McGinest.

The courtroom camera, which made Erik and Lyle Menendez household names during their 1993-94 trial in the shotgun killings of their wealthy parents, will be barred from the brothers' retrial.