Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor in the OJ Simpson murder case, has claimed that the Menendez brothers’ trial is “more complicated” than that of the late football star.

The claim was made by the 71-year-old on Monday morning while providing legal insight on the set of Today.

She commented on the decades-old case involving Lyle and Erik Menendez, who she described as “spoiled rich kids who shot their parents.”

Clark acknowledged that the two, ages 56 and 53 respectively, “could be convicted of manslaughter” if a judge concludes that they “felt their lives were in imminent danger” when they killed their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez brutally shot to death in Beverly Hills in 1989.

The two spent the last 30 years in prison after being found guilty – until a court recently tried to waive their life sentences.

Based on new evidence that the siblings had been sexually abused by their father at a young age, the offer is currently being heard by Judge Michael Jesic and could secure the convicted murderers’ release.

Speaking about the prospect on Monday, Clark – who famously failed to secure a guilty verdict in the 1995 Simpson case – said it was anything but an open and shut case.

“If they felt their lives were in imminent danger, they deserved to be convicted of manslaughter,” she told hosts of the resentencing effort, which is supported by accounts from older relatives of the Menendezes.

Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor in the OJ Simpson murder case, told Today hosts on Monday that the Menendez brothers’ trial was “more complicated” than that of the late football star

Clark, pictured here in September 1995 in Los Angeles criminal court, famously failed to secure a guilty verdict against Simpson in the infamous case that ended with the athlete’s release

“The Simpson case is no different from any of the high-profile cases the society reported on at the time,” she added. “It has an impact on how we view the case.”

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