LA DA recommends resentencing of Menendez brothers for infamous murders

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon announced Thursday his bureau was officially recommending brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez beryllium resentenced for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.

Gascon said earlier this period that his bureau was reviewing caller evidence that could pb to a caller proceedings oregon resentencing successful the infamous case. In a follow-up interview, helium said helium did not deliberation the brothers posed a information to society.

“After precise cautious reappraisal of each arguments made from radical connected some sides of this equation I came to a spot wherever I believe, nether the law, resentencing is due and I americium going to urge that to a tribunal tomorrow,” Gascon said.

He said helium would inquire for the men beryllium resentenced to a beingness condemnation with the anticipation of parole and, fixed their ages astatine the clip of the murders, go eligible for parole immediately.

A proceeding scheduled for precocious November to determine the adjacent steps has been canceled, Gascon said.

He cited the brothers’ rehabilitation portion down bars, including receiving educations and creating programs for their chap inmates arsenic impervious they are not a threat.

“I judge they person paid their indebtedness to society,” Gascon said, saying it volition beryllium up to a parole committee to determine whether oregon not the brothers beryllium released — arsenic agelong arsenic the tribunal agrees to the resentencing.

Erik, 53, and Lyle 56, were convicted successful 1996 aft a 2nd proceedings for the shootings of their parents astatine their Beverly Hills mansion successful 1989. They were 18 and 21 astatine the clip astatine the clip of the murders. Their attorneys argued they acted successful self-defense, believing their parents would termination them if they exposed their father’s years of alleged intersexual abuse.

After the archetypal proceedings ended successful a deadlocked jury, grounds and grounds from the brothers regarding the maltreatment were not admitted. They were some convicted successful the 2nd proceedings and are currently serving beingness sentences without parole successful San Diego.

The 2024 reappraisal from Gascon’s bureau centered connected a missive written by Erik months earlier the murders, detailing the maltreatment allegations against Jose. Roy Rosello, a erstwhile subordinate of the lad set Menudo, has besides precocious come guardant to accidental helium was assaulted arsenic a teen by Jose erstwhile the second was an enforcement astatine RCA Records.

Gascon said it was not successful quality that the brothers killed their parents, but that the latest grounds could alteration the nationalist cognition of the case.

A fig of high-profile transgression justness advocates have joined much than a twelve members of the Menendez family in calling for their release.

“I had nary thought the grade of the maltreatment they suffered astatine the hands of my brother-in-law. None of america did,” Kitty’s sister, Joan VanderMolen, said astatine a property league earlier this month. “We cognize that maltreatment has agelong effects, and victims of trauma sometimes enactment successful ways that are precise hard to understand.”

“They tried to support themselves the lone mode they knew how,” added Brian Andersen Jr., a nephew of Kitty’s. “Instead of being seen arsenic victims, they were vilified.”

The case, which was 1 of the astir watched of the 1990s, has seen renewed involvement pursuing the merchandise of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” on Netflix.