Menendez brothers family speak out at bombshell press conference as they beg DA to free them

The Menendez household person spoken retired successful hopes that caller grounds volition person Los Angeles District lawyer George Gascon to merchandise the brothers.

Over members of the household and defence lawyer Mark Geragos held a property league connected Wednesday asking for a revised sentence, which could spot Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, locomotion free.

'If they were the Menendez sisters they wouldn't beryllium successful custody,' Geragos said of the attraction the brothers received successful their proceedings for the murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez. 

Kitty's sister Joan Andersen VanderMolen besides spoke astatine the property conference, describing the symptom the household has felt for implicit 30 years.

'Their actions, portion tragic, were the hopeless effect of 2 boys trying to past the unspeakable cruelty of their father,' Vandermolen said. 

She added: 'The information is, Lyle and Erik were failed by the precise radical who should person protected them—their parents, the system, and nine astatine large.' 

 The household introduced a conjugation called 'Justice for Eric and Lyle' and spoke of however the brothers person lived a beingness of intent successful their 35 years successful situation - adjacent though they did not expect to ever beryllium freed.

They besides said they person started a petition for radical to enactment the brothers' resentencing and release. 

'Lyle and Erik merit a accidental to heal, and our household deserves a accidental to heal with them,' said 1 of the brothers' cousins, Anamaria Baralt.

Baralt besides work a connection from her mother, Jose's sister, saying, 'My supplication is that I unrecorded agelong capable to spot my nephews again and to hug them erstwhile more.'

One of Kitty's nephews, Brian Andersen Jr., said: 'I've known Erik and Lyle my full life. I tin archer you without a uncertainty that they are not the villains they've been portrayed as. 

'They were boys, young, frightened and abused by their begetter successful ways nary kid should ever experience.'

In summation to the property conference, the relatives placed a afloat leafage advertisement successful Wednesday’s LA Times, showing photos of the brothers and calling for ‘JUSTICE FOR ERIK AND LYLE’ 

The brothers, past conscionable 18 and 21, killed their parents Jose and Mary Louise 'Kitty' Menendez with shotguns wrong their million-dollar Beverly Hills location successful August 1989.

Their consequent proceedings prompted worldwide headlines. Prosecutors said they were motivated by greed, arsenic they stood to inherit $14 cardinal from their parents - portion the brothers insisted they acted against a begetter who sexually abused them for years and a parent who turned a unsighted oculus to the abuse.

That archetypal proceedings ended with a hung jury. But astatine their 2nd proceedings successful 1996 - wherever the justice refused to let immoderate grounds astir the brothers being molested by their begetter - they were convicted and sentenced to beingness successful situation with nary anticipation of parole.

If a assemblage astatine immoderate imaginable re-trial finds them blameworthy of voluntary manslaughter alternatively of murder, it would trigger their contiguous merchandise arsenic they person already served much than the maximum sentence.

Gascon launched a caller look astatine the lawsuit past month, saying his bureau was investigating caller grounds of maltreatment that was not permitted successful their trial,

Specifically, Gascon said helium was reviewing shocking allegations made past twelvemonth by Roy Rossello, a erstwhile subordinate of the set Menudo, who claimed Jose Menendez - past a apical enforcement with RCA Records - drugged and raped him successful the 1980s erstwhile helium was a teenager.

The brothers’ attorney, Mark Geragos- who is asking LA Superior Court to vacate the convictions - besides provided Gascon with caller grounds of a missive Erik Menendez wrote to his relative successful which helium said helium was inactive being raped by his begetter 8 months earlier the murders.

Gascon remains non-committal astatine contiguous astir whether he’ll propulsion for the lawsuit to spell backmost to court, his bureau telling DailyMail.com, ‘A determination regarding the Menendez lawsuit has not been made. Once DA Gascón has made a decision, the household members of the victims and the nationalist volition beryllium notified.'

O’Donnell isn’t the lone personage supporting the merchandise of the brothers. Kim Kardashian made a connection to NBC News earlier this month, saying, ‘The proceedings and punishment these brothers received were much befitting a serial slayer than 2 individuals who endured years of intersexual maltreatment by the precise radical they loved and trusted.’

New involvement successful the lawsuit was sparked implicit the past fewer weeks with the premiere of the Netflix drama, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and the existent transgression documentary The Menendez Brothers - besides connected Netflix - which archer however the brothers claimed to constabulary that they returned location from the theatre to find their parents had been slaughtered.

At archetypal it was feared that a vicious slayer was connected the escaped successful Beverly Hills, 1 of America's wealthiest communities.

But cops switched their suspicions to Lyle and Erik aft they acceptable astir spending their $14 cardinal inheritance soon aft their parents’ deaths.

Lyle bought a Porsche Carrera, Rolex ticker and 2 restaurants, portion his member hired a full-time tennis manager to statesman competing successful tournaments.

In all, they spent $700,000 betwixt the clip of their parents' deaths and their arrests successful March 1990, 7 months aft the murders.

Erik - who said his begetter abused him from the property of six to 12 - insisted successful the caller Netflix documentary that it’s 'absurd' to suggest helium was having a bully clip successful the contiguous aftermath of the murders.

'Everything was to screen up this horrible symptom of not wanting to beryllium alive,' helium said.

'One of the things that stopped maine from sidesplitting myself was that I would beryllium a implicit nonaccomplishment to my dad.'