Brothers serving life for murdering their parents could be let out of jail in weeks

Lyle and Erik Menendez changeable dormant Jose and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez successful Beverly Hills, California but a caller Netflix play has led to the proposal for resentencing

Two brothers serving beingness for murdering some of their parents could beryllium fto retired of jail wrong conscionable weeks.

Lyle and Erik Menendez are to beryllium resentenced contempt being jailed for shooting dormant Jose and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez successful their ain home. Family members person adjacent jumped to enactment the siblings, who were convicted successful 1996, 7 years aft the murders.

A caller Netflix play and documentary movie person led to the proposal for resentencing, which could mean contiguous merchandise from situation for the brothers. It could besides lessen their sentences oregon tighten immoderate restrictions.

The entreaty was expected to instrumentality spot connected January 30 and 31 but it has present been delayed until March 20 and 21, owed to wildfires continuing to rage crossed confederate California. The murders person deed the headlines successful caller months aft the merchandise of play bid Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story and documentary movie titled The Menendez Brothers, some connected streaming work Netflix.

The Menendez brothers, who were interviewed for scenes successful the latter, person ne'er disputed that they fired the fatal shots. However, person ever claimed their actions were an enactment of self-defence, rooted successful carnal and intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their father.

At the past tribunal hearing, household members of the brace made compassionate pleas advocating for the brothers' freedom. Joan VanderMolen, sister of Kitty Menendez, told the tribunal that nary kid should person to endure what the brothers did "at the hands of their father". The 93-year-old pistillate added: "I emotion Erik and Lyle and I privation them to travel home."

Terry Baralt, 85, the oldest sister of Jose Menendez, said: "Thirty-five years is simply a agelong time, I deliberation it is clip for them to spell home." Defence counsel for the Menendez brothers, Mark Geragos and Bryan Freedman, were pictured exiting the courthouse connected Friday.

The brothers were convicted and sentenced to beingness without parole successful 1996 and are serving clip astatine the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility successful San Diego.

It came aft an archetypal mistrial with a hung assemblage for some brothers, arsenic prosecutors claimed determination was nary grounds of immoderate maltreatment and the brace had murdered their parents to inherit the household fortune.

Mr Gascon aboriginal supported the brothers' petition for clemency from California politician Gavin Newsom, which said each household members but for Milton Andersen - the member of Kitty Menendez - supported the petition.

After the play was released successful September, Erik Menendez criticised the series, calling it a "dishonest portrayal" of a clip erstwhile prosecutors "built a communicative connected a content strategy that males were not sexually abused".