Leslie Abramson

* Re “Abramson to Defend Erik Menendez,” April 6:

As a citizen of Ventura County, I am outraged that the taxpayers of Los Angeles County will be footing the bill for Leslie Abramson’s legal fees for confessed murderer Eric Menendez. And what a bill it will be at $125,000 per year! The court-appointed counsel for brother Lyle indicates that the defense will not be ready for trial until later this year. Ms. Abramson will probably collect in 1995 if the past is any indication of the length of the trial for “the boys.”

People will go to bed hungry tonight but an attorney who has already been paid $650,000 need not worry about her next meal. The judge should be ashamed of himself.

LINDA CLARK

Thousand Oaks

* The accounting of how the Menendez brothers’ vast fortune has been depleted (“Little Remains of Menendez Estate, Records Show,” April 3) was very interesting, but it somehow failed to arouse any compassion in me for these poor, murdering kids or for their pitiable attorneys who have so far earned only $1.5 million.

NAOMI Z. FELDMAN

Los Angeles

* In response to “Menendez Lawyer Sends Letters Seeking Donations,” March 26:

Leslie Abramson, the defense lawyer for Erik Menendez, in her solicitation of $1 million for legal fees for the retrial, once again brings home the sad fact that in the present “justice” system, a “not guilty” verdict and the availability of money are closely related.

BRAM BENJAMINS

Beverly Hills