Menendez brothers all smiles in latest mugshots as Los Angeles DA recommends reduced sentences

California authorities person released a brace of caller mugshots of the Menendez brothers arsenic they've crossed a large threshold successful their effort to person their sentences of beingness imprisonment without parole reduced – and they're each smiles.

Erik and Joseph "Lyle" Menendez killed their parents, Jose and Mary "Kitty" Menendez, successful a bloody 1989 shotgun massacre, opening occurrence from down portion the 2 were watching TV successful their Beverly Hills surviving room.

According to their defence team, the brothers killed their dada due to the fact that they were acrophobic helium would beryllium the 1 to termination them aft they threatened to exposure him arsenic a kid enactment abuser.

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Lyle Menendez, left, and his member Erik pictured successful their astir caller CDCR mugshots, taken connected Oct. 10, 2024. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

Prosecutors astatine proceedings convinced the jurors successful 1995 that the motive was greed, not fearfulness for their lives, but contiguous time Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon said Thursday helium would inquire a justice to trim their sentences, clearing the mode to imaginable merchandise from prison.

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"After precise cautious reappraisal of each the arguments… I came to a spot wherever I judge that, nether the law, resentencing is appropriate, and I americium going to urge that to a tribunal tomorrow," Gascon told reporters Thursday afternoon.

An undated photograph of the Menendez household arsenic it appears on-screen during a sheet astatine CrimeCon 2024 successful Nashville, Tennessee, connected June 2. The brothers Lyle and Erik were convicted of fatally shooting their parents successful 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

A justice has to o.k. his caller proposal earlier it goes to the authorities parole board, which indispensable past docket hearings wrong six months. If the parole committee approves their release, past Gov. Gavin Newsom has last say.

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Kitty Menendez's member and sister, present some successful their 90s, are connected other sides successful their nephews' combat for freedom.

Joan Andersen VanderMolen, sister of Kitty Menendez, speaks arsenic household members of Erik and Lyle Menendez, the Beverly Hills brothers convicted of sidesplitting their parents, clasp a property league astatine the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center successful Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 16, 2024.   (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

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Milton Andersen, 90, vehemently opposes a reduced condemnation and connected Wednesday asked the justice overseeing the lawsuit to support his nephews successful situation for the remainder of their lives.

Joan Andersen VanderMolen, 92, is among 2 twelve relatives who person publically called for the brothers' release.