Menendez brothers hearing set for Dec. 11, could be immediately released

The proceeding day for the possible resentencing of convicted murderers Lyle and Erik Menendez has been scheduled.

According to a TMZ report, the proceeding is acceptable for Dec. 11, astatine which clip a justice could determine to escaped them past and there. However, the justice volition person discretion to marque a determination astatine a aboriginal date.

The Dec. 11 day was decided connected during a gathering Wednesday betwixt prosecutors, the defence and Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael V. Jesic, who was assigned to the lawsuit this week.

Mark Geragos, the brothers’ attorney, reportedly plans to inquire for their condemnation beryllium reduced to manslaughter. If successful, they would beryllium released from situation instantly since they’ve already served the maximum clip for manslaughter.

Geragos besides plans to inquire California Gov. Gavin Newsom to grant the brothers clemency. If their sentences were commuted, they would besides beryllium freed immediately.

L.A. County D.A. George Gascón said past week helium was recommending their condemnation beryllium lessened successful bid to marque the brothers eligible for parole.

Earlier this month, the authoritative said his bureau was reviewing caller evidence successful the lawsuit and that he’d concluded they would not airs a menace to society if they were released.

Under that scenario, it would beryllium up to the state’s parole committee to determine whether oregon not the brothers are released.

“I judge they person paid their debt,” Gascón said past Thursday.

He 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.

Erik, 53, and Lyle 56, were convicted successful 1996 aft a 2nd proceedings for the shootings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, astatine their Beverly Hills mansion successful 1989. They were 18 and 21 years aged astatine the clip of the murders.

Their archetypal proceedings successful the slayings ended with a hung jury. The brothers person agelong claimed they feared their parents would termination them to screen up Jose’s alleged years of intersexual abuse. Evidence and grounds of that maltreatment was not allowed during their 2nd trial.

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