Kin, the notorious Menendez brother serving a life sentence for murdering their billionaire parents, expects his brother to be re-sentenced at a much-anticipated press conference on Wednesday, reports say. There is.
Many relatives of Eric Menendez and Lyle Menendez have been invited by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón to attend an event at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Courthouse and have received significant information regarding this infamous case. We look forward to receiving the latest favorable information. Vanity Fair reported Monday, citing a person familiar with the situation.
Extended family members say Eric, 53, and Lyle, 56, have been in prison for more than 30 years for the murders of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. However, the newspaper reported that it is expected that the public prosecutor's office will ultimately recommend re-sentence. .
The possible renewal comes after Gascón announced that he is considering new evidence of sexual abuse charges in the case to determine whether the brothers should continue serving life sentences without parole. It took place just a few weeks after.
The brothers have long maintained that they killed their parents in self-defense after suffering lifelong physical, mental and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents.
Lyle, then 21, and Eric, then 18, suspected that their parents had tried to kill them to prevent them from revealing long-term sexual abuse by their father, a former RCA Records executive. He claims he committed the shooting out of fear. My youngest brother.
Prosecutors argued at the time that there was no evidence of sexual abuse and that the sons were after their parents' multimillion-dollar fortune.
The two were ultimately convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The brothers came forward last year after the Peacock documentary “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” aired allegations that their father sexually assaulted a former underage member of the 1980s boy band Menudo. , filed a petition asking for reconsideration of the case.
Lyle and Eric argued that the new evidence lends credence to their claims that they were sexually abused by their father and mother as children.
In announcing the review earlier this month, the district attorney said there was no question that the brothers committed the murders, but that his office would review the evidence to determine whether re-sentencing was warranted.
One of their attorneys, Mark Geragos, said the brothers' families believed from the beginning that they should have been charged with manslaughter rather than murder.
The case has been in the spotlight again in recent weeks after Netflix began streaming another full-fledged crime drama, Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez.
