Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing moved after LA wildfires

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who are serving beingness sentences without parole for murdering their parents, person had their resentencing proceeding moved “due to the impact” of the Los Angeles wildfires.

Prosecutors and defence counsel met with LA Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic connected Friday, wherever a caller day of March 20-21 was agreed for the hearing.

“The continuance is owed to the interaction of caller wildfires connected the parties’ extended preparations for the hearings,” LA territory lawyer Nathan Hochman, who precocious replaced George Gascon, announced.

The proceeding had primitively been scheduled to instrumentality spot connected January 30-31.

The 1989 execution lawsuit has been successful the headlines implicit the past fewer months aft a Netflix play bid and documentary movie were released.

The Menendez brothers person ne'er disputed that they fired the fatal shots that killed their parents, Jose and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, connected August 20 1989 astatine their Beverly Hills home.

But the brace person ever claimed their actions were an enactment of self-defence, rooted successful carnal and intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their father.

After the bid aired, then-district lawyer Mr Gascon announced his proposal for resentencing of the brothers, who person besides received backing from the bulk of their household and stars including Kim Kardashian.

Resentencing could mean contiguous merchandise from situation for the brothers, but it has to beryllium approved by a judge.

At the past tribunal hearing, household members of the brace made compassionate pleas advocating for the brothers’ freedom.

Joan VanderMolen, sister of Kitty Menendez, told the tribunal that nary kid should person to endure what the brothers did “at the hands of their father”.

“I emotion Erik and Lyle and I privation them to travel home,” the 93-year-old added.

Terry Baralt, 85, the oldest sister of Jose Menendez, said: “Thirty-five years is simply a agelong time, I deliberation it is clip for them to spell home.”

Defence counsel for the Menendez brothers, Mark Geragos and Bryan Freedman, were pictured exiting the tribunal location connected Friday.

The brothers were convicted and sentenced to beingness without parole successful 1996 and are serving clip astatine the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility successful San Diego.

It came aft an archetypal mistrial with a hung assemblage for some brothers, arsenic prosecutors claimed determination was nary grounds of immoderate maltreatment and the brace had murdered their parents to inherit the household fortune.

Mr Gascon aboriginal supported the brothers’ petition for clemency from California politician Gavin Newsom, which said each household members but for Milton Andersen – the member of Kitty Menendez – supported the petition.

Netflix launched play bid Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story by co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.

The nine-part bid stars Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch arsenic the brothers, portion Oscar-winner Javier Bardem and Chloe Sevigny represent parents Jose and Kitty.

At the time, the existent Erik Menendez criticised the series, calling it a “dishonest portrayal” of a clip erstwhile prosecutors “built a communicative connected a content strategy that males were not sexually abused”.

Netflix besides released a documentary movie titled The Menendez Brothers which featured interviews with the pair.