Outgoing DA George Gascón wants the brothers eligible for parole, but his successor wants to review the files first.
An Oct. 31, 2016, photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Erik Menendez, left, and a Feb. 22, 2018 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows Lyle Menendez. Erik and Lyle Menendez – brothers who have spent 34 years behind bars for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion,District Attorney George Gascón said he would ask a judge to reconsider their life sentences.
If necessary, Hochman said he might ask the judge to delay the resentencing hearing that’s scheduled for Dec. 11 – nine days after he takes office. “Everybody who has reviewed the files have come to the same conclusion,” Geragos said in an interview. “I would imagine as a reasonable man, will come to the same conclusion that all reasonable people have – that they should be out.”, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989 when they were 21 and 18 years old. Their attorneys claimed they were victims of emotional and sexual abuse by their father, an RCA Records executive, and had acted in self-defense.
Gascón said he decided to reexamine the case because of new evidence – a letter that Erik Menendez reportedly wrote to a cousin years ago, which his attorneys say corroborates allegations that their father was sexually abusive, along with claims by a former member of the Latin pop group Menudo who recently came forward and said he was raped by Jose Menendez in the 1980s when he was a teen.On Nov.
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