The Menendez brothers’ lawyer, Mark Geragos, is considering reducing the murder sentence to manslaughter.

LOS ANGELES — Lawyer Mark Geragos says he may try to get Menendez brothersthe murder conviction was reduced to voluntary manslaughter in a new attempt to speed up their potential release.

Geragos, who has promised to have them home by Thanksgiving, is trying to speed up their eventual release from prison by convincing a judge in Los Angeles to commute the sentences of Erik and Lyle Menendez.

“I think they’re cautiously optimistic that they’ll be able to see some real relief at this point,” Geragos told Good Morning America.

Some members of the brothers’ family are also hopeful.

“They’ve done their penance, and now it’s time for them to come home,” cousin Tamara Goodell said in an interview.

Last week, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recommended re-sentencing the Menendez brothers after new evidence prompted him to reconsider the case. But Gascon seems to support their murder convictions.

In an interview with ABC News, the district attorney was asked what he tells people in his office who say the two young men apparently planned the murders.

“We won’t let them go,” Gascon replied. “First of all, I made it clear: these were brutal murders, they were premeditated, and that is why they received life in prison without the possibility of parole.”

The reporter noted that the district attorney recommended that the brothers be released almost immediately.

“I recommend their release because I believe the people they were are not the same people 35 years later,” Gascón said.

Eric and Lyle Menendez are currently serving life sentences without parole for the grisly murders of their parents, who were shot to death in 1989.

If the judge agrees to resentencing, the case will still require approval from the Parole Board and Gov. Gavin Newsom, a process that could take a year.