Menendez brothers prosecutor announces resentencing decision

Los Angeles' apical bull says helium has reached a determination connected whether his bureau volition question a reduced condemnation for the Menendez brothers.

Erik and Joseph "Lyle" Menendez ambushed their parents with shotguns successful the surviving country of their Beverly Hills mansion successful 1989.

Their archetypal proceedings ended successful a mistrial. They were some convicted aft their 2nd proceedings and sentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.

However, nether a caller California law, territory attorneys person the authorization to petition caller sentences that were handed down earlier they took office.

LETTER AT CENTER OF MENENDEZ BROTHERS' BID FOR FREEDOM CALLED INTO QUESTION

Erik Menendez (C) and his member Lyle (L) are pictured connected Aug. 12, 1991 successful Beverly Hills.  (MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The brothers and their supporters, including 2 twelve relatives, petitioned Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon for a resentencing earlier this year, arguing that caller grounds shows the brothers were sexually abused and molested by their father.

The caller grounds includes allegations made nationalist past twelvemonth that their begetter besides molested Roy Rossello, a erstwhile subordinate of the lad set Menudo, successful the 1980s, and a missive that Erik Menendez wrote to his cousin, Andy Cano, which surfaced successful 2015, years aft the latter's death.

Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez are serving beingness sentences aft being convicted of sidesplitting their parents. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via Associated Press)

FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X

The day the missive was written has been challenged by critics of the brothers' imaginable release. The defence said helium sent it to his relative 8 months earlier the murders.

Gascon is up for reelection successful little than 2 weeks and faces a beardown situation from autarkic campaigner Nathan Hochman, a erstwhile national prosecutor. Critics person called his engagement successful the high-profile lawsuit politically motivated. But determination is besides immoderate nationalist enactment for the brothers' merchandise aft a bid of caller documentaries attracted attraction to their case, including 1 connected FOX Nation.

WATCH ON FOX NATION: MENENDEZ BROTHERS: VICTIMS OR VILLAINS?

The brothers unloaded shotguns astatine their father, erstwhile RCA Records enforcement Jose Menendez, and their mother, Mary "Kitty" Menendez, portion the mates was watching TV astatine 10:30 p.m.

They ran retired of shells and had to spell extracurricular to get much successful bid to decorativeness disconnected their mother, who investigators said had humor connected the bottommost of her shoes, indicating that she tried to flight aft the shooting began.

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

Not each of the brothers' household members enactment their release.

Kitty Menendez's brother, Milton Andersen, 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 – arsenic they were sentenced originally.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

"It’s Milton Andersen’s continued content that the claims of molestation were made up, and they were false, and helium believes that the correct verdict was issued by the assemblage and the close condemnation was besides committed," his lawyer Kathleen Cady told Fox News Digital.

This is simply a breaking quality story.