This comes after the Netflix documentary about their case renewed interest in their sentencing.
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Nathanred — 1 year ago(October 25, 2024 06:52 AM)
This comes after the Netflix documentary about their case renewed interest in their sentencing.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/menendez-brothers-resentencing-supported-l-a-district-attorney-george-gascon-1236044594/
Erik and Lyle Menendez may soon be released from prison, with Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón recommending that they be resentenced.
Gascón announced Thursday that his office will move for reconsideration of the decades-old case involving the brothers, who killed their parents in a salvo of shotgun blasts in the den of their Beverly Hills mansion. They’ve served 34 years in prison, exhausting all of their appeals in 2005.
The recommendation for the brothers to be resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole will be considered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. From there, it will go to a parole board, which will determine whether they should be set free. They could immediately be eligible for parole.
“They have paid their debt to society, and the system provides a vehicle for their case to be reviewed,” Gascón said.
The district attorney believes that the new evidence could have led to a different sentencing and the brother's would already be out by now:
Ryan Murphy’s polarizing nine-part series following the 1989 killings of José and Kitty Menendez, a documentary and an army of TikTok supporters spurred renewed scrutiny into the trials, which was among the first to be nationally televised.
Earlier in October, Gascón said his office is reviewing the convictions. The reexamination relates to new evidence uncovered over the past year providing context to the crimes. Last year, Roy Rossello, a member of the boy band Menudo, disclosed in the Peacock documentary Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed that José Menendez, then president of RCA Records, sexually assaulted him when he was a minor. There’s also a letter written by Erik Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano corroborating accusations that he was sexually abused.
“I believe the brothers were subjected to a tremendous amount of dysfunction and molestation in their home,” Gascón said. “But they went to prison for life without the possibility of parole, which meant that, under law at the time, they had no hope of ever getting out.”
If evidence of sexual abuse was presented at their trial, the jury could’ve voted to convict for manslaughter, which would’ve allowed for the brothers’ release decades ago. Gascón, who could’ve recommended that the brothers be resentenced under convictions for manslaughter, said he opted not to do so because he didn’t think it would be the “appropriate” charge. -
Pandora — 1 year ago(October 25, 2024 06:56 AM)
This will be interesting. When I watched Monsters I wasn't sure if they were lying about the abuse but after I watched the Netflix documentary, it seemed more like they were telling the truth. Now with more abuse accusations it does seem like it actually happened.