Prosecutors to reveal whether they favour resentencing Menendez Brothers

The destiny of Erik and Lyle Menendez is successful the hands of prosecutors, arsenic they get acceptable to denote Thursday day whether they urge resentencing the brothers for the 1989 killings of their parents successful Beverly Hills.

The brothers were sentenced successful 1996 to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has scheduled a 1:30 p.m. PT quality league to sermon his office’s decision.

If prosecutors bash urge resentencing, they would request tribunal approval.

Erik, present 53, and his 56-year-old brother, Lyle, person been incarcerated successful authorities situation aft being convicted of sidesplitting their parents, José and Mary Louise (Kitty) Menendez, much than 35 years ago.

Last week, members of their extended household descended connected a Los Angeles courthouse, holding a property league to advocate for the brothers’ merchandise from prison arsenic prosecutors reappraisal caller evidence.

The caller grounds includes a missive written by Erik Menendez that his lawyers accidental corroborates the allegations that helium was sexually abused by his father. The quality league was the largest gathering of the extended household since the brothers’ sentencing.

“They tried to support themselves the lone mode they knew how,” said Brian A. Andersen Jr., nephew of Kitty Menendez. “Instead of being seen arsenic victims, they were vilified.”

“They are no longer a threat to society,” helium continued.

“I had nary thought the grade of the maltreatment they suffered astatine the hands of my brother-in-law. None of america did,” said Joan Andersen VanderMolen, Kitty Menendez’s sister. “We cognize that maltreatment has agelong effects, and victims of trauma sometimes enactment successful ways that are precise hard to understand.”

“The full satellite was not acceptable to perceive that boys could beryllium raped,” she said, adding, “today we cognize better.”

At first, the brothers, who were 18 and 21 years aged astatine the clip of the killings, maintained to constabulary they’d stopped by their parents’ location the nighttime of the killings to retrieve Erik’s ID portion connected the mode to a movie and discovered their slain parents.

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Erik yet confided to his therapist that helium and his member were liable for the killings and aft the therapist shared the accusation with his wife, the confession yet made its mode to police.

Lyle and Erik were yet arrested for the murders and their proceedings kicked disconnected an epoch of high-profile, televised transgression trials that captured the public’s imaginativeness done the ‘90s.

Despite defence arguments that José had sexually molested his 2 sons for years and that they killed their parents retired of fear, they were convicted of first-degree murder.

Prosecutors astatine the clip contended determination was nary grounds of immoderate molestation. They said the sons were aft their parents’ multi-million-dollar estate, but the brothers person said they killed their parents retired of self-defence aft enduring a beingness of physical, affectional and intersexual abuse.