Menendez brothers prosecutor announces resentencing decision

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Menendez brothers prosecutor announces resentencing decision
Los Angeles DA George Gascon green lights resentencing
By Michael Ruiz Fox News
Published October 24, 2024 3:59pm EDT | Updated October 24, 2024 5:12pm EDT

Los Angeles' top cop says he has reached a decision to seek a reduced sentence for the Menendez brothers.

"After very careful review of all the arguments…I came to a place where I believe that, under the law, resentencing is appropriate, and I am going to recommend that to a court tomorrow," District Attorney George Gascon told reporters Thursday afternoon.

He said he will recommend a sentence of 50 years to life for each of the brothers, which would make them immediately eligible for parole under state law because they were under 26 at the time of the murders.

Erik and Joseph "Lyle" Menendez ambushed their parents with shotguns in the living room of their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.

Their first trial ended in a mistrial. They were both convicted after their second trial and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. However, under a new California law, district attorneys have the authority to request new sentences that were handed down before they took office.

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Don’t Feel Sorry for the Menendez Brothers
A new Netflix documentary has led many people to question whether the Menendez brothers should still be in prison. The answer is simple: Yes.
By Alan Abrahamson
October 9, 2024

... I was the Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered the first of the brothers’ two trials, the one that was televised, the one that ended with deadlocked juries, the one you can see now on YouTube or TikTok. For six months, I sat in a courtroom in Van Nuys, California, and took notes.   ...

The defense argues in its new petition: “To resolve this case, jurors had to decide a single, critical question: Was José Menendez molesting his sons?” No. That is not it at all. What jurors had to decide is whether—when they gunned both parents—the brothers were genuinely afraid their parents were about to kill or seriously hurt them.

Which is why all these years later, my take is simple. The brothers are skilled liars who prey on the emotions of those who do not understand the presence of evil in our world. The so-called “abuse excuse”?

So what?

Lyle and Erik Menendez are stone-cold murderers. On August 20, 1989, using shotguns, they killed their parents, José and Kitty, at close range in the den of the family’s Beverly Hills home. ...

Before the trial, I interviewed a judge. “In this day and age it has become de rigueur in parricide cases to claim this abuse,” he told me. “The father is gone, the mother is gone. The sympathy now lies with the children, who complain of having their pudding withdrawn. And people in the fourth estate tend to make such claims plausible. Let’s face it, it sells a lot of soap.” ...

https://www.thefp.com/p/dont-feel-sorry-for-the-menendez

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This is Gascon's parting slap-in-the-face to a voting public that will soundly reject and replace him come November 5th...