Menendez brothers trial date set

LOS ANGELES – Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers convicted of killing their parents Jose and Kitty in 1989, have been given a hearing date.

Menendez brothers will appear before a judge on December 11. That will come after prosecutors, the defense and the judge handling the case meet Wednesday. Los Angeles County Supreme Court Justice Michael W. Jesich.

During the hearing, Vesic will consider a motion to resentence the brothers to 50 years in prison or life in prison with the possibility of parole. Given the brothers’ ages at the time of the crime, such a move would have made them immediately eligible for parole as juvenile offenders, even though they had only served about 35 years behind bars.

Mark Geragos, the brothers’ attorney, plans to ask for their sentences to be reduced to manslaughter during a defense motion hearing scheduled for Nov. 25. If successful, they will be immediately released from prison as they have already served the maximum sentence for manslaughter.

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Additionally, Geragos reportedly said he plans to pop the question Governor Gavin Newsom have mercy on the brothers. If this had been allowed, the brothers could have been released immediately.

“I strongly support clemency for Erik and Lyla Menendez, who are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole,” Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón the statement says. “They served 34 years respectively, continued their education and worked to create new programs to support the rehabilitation of inmates.”

The advance in the brothers’ case comes after Gascón recommended that the couple be resentenced after more than three decades in prison for the double murder of their parents.

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Earlier this month, Gascón’s office began reviewing new evidence in the case and concluded that Eric and Lyle would not pose a threat to society if released.

“I believe they have paid their debt,” he said.

If the judge approves Gascón’s recommendation, the state parole board will have to decide whether the brothers will be released.

The Menendez brothers were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty, and sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole.

Eric and Lyle, who were 18 and 21 at the time of the killings, said they acted in self-defense after years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. However, this defense was not allowed to be used in the second trial.

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Interest in the case has recently been renewed following the release of Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, for which Erik was heavily criticized.

“I am saddened to know that Netflix’s dishonest portrayal of the tragedies associated with our crime has pushed painful truths back several steps—back in time to an era when the prosecution built a narrative on a belief system that men were not sexually assaulted. and that men experience the trauma of rape differently than women,” Eric said in a statement released on his behalf by his wife Tammy after the document’s release.

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“I am grateful to District Attorney (George) Gascón for his courage in seeking a resentencing for Eric. “I’m naturally disappointed that he didn’t go ahead and act on his own belief that Eric and Lyle had served enough time in prison,” Tammy said in an interview. X after a recommendation to reconsider the sentence.