L.A. DA George Gascón confirms he’ll search a lowered sentence for the Menendez brothers, making them eligible for rapid parole.
Erik and Lyle Menendez might be launched inside weeks as Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascón has confirmed that he’ll search a lowered sentence for the brothers. Gascón will ask a Los Angeles decide to decrease their sentence from life with out the potential of parole to 50 years to life. If that is authorized, the Menendez brothers would instantly be eligible for parole.
“It can happen quickly, if the judge is ready to place the matter on the calendar,” mentioned Bess Stiffelman, an legal professional who handles post-conviction issues in L.A. “It’s likely, if the D.A. makes the recommendation, the judge would accept it.” The Menendez brothers have been incarcerated for 34 years after they had been arrested for the 1989 homicide of their mother and father, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
The renewed curiosity within the Menendez brothers skyrocketed after the discharge of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story on Netflix. New items of proof additionally drove the push for his or her resentencing. A kind of new items is a letter allegedly written by Erik Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano eight months earlier than the murders. “I’ve been trying to avoid dad. It’s still happening Andy but it’s worse for me now. I can’t explain it. He’s so overweight that I just can’t stand to see him. I never know when it’s going to happen and it’s driving me crazy,” mentioned Erik within the letter.
Erik Menendez took to social media (via his spouse Tammi) to slam Monsters co-creator Ryan Murphy for together with “ruinous character portrayals” of each him and his brother. Murphy hit again, saying that they need to be sending him flowers for giving them a lot consideration once more. “I’ll tell you my thoughts about the Menendez brothers. The Menendez brothers should be sending me flowers. They haven’t had so much attention in 30 years. And it’s gotten the attention of not only this country, but all over the world. There’s sort of an outpouring of interest in their lives and in the case,” Murphy mentioned. “I do know for a proven fact that many individuals have provided to assist them due to the curiosity of my present and what we did. There isn’t any world that we reside in the place the Menendez brothers or their wives or legal professionals would say, ‘You know what, that was a wonderful, accurate depiction of our clients.’ That was by no means going to occur, and I wasn’t interested by that occuring.“
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is at the moment streaming on Netflix and you may try a evaluate from our personal Alex Maidy proper right here.
