Menendez brothers all smiles in latest mugshots as Los Angeles DA recommends reduced sentences

California authorities person released a brace of caller mugshots of nan Menendez brothers arsenic they've crossed a awesome period successful their effort to person their sentences of life imprisonment without parole reduced – and they're each smiles.

Erik and Joseph "Lyle" Menendez killed their parents, Jose and Mary "Kitty" Menendez, successful a bloody 1989 shotgun massacre, opening occurrence from down while nan 2 were watching TV successful their Beverly Hills surviving room.

According to their defense team, nan brothers killed their dada because they were acrophobic he would beryllium nan 1 to termination them aft they threatened to expose him arsenic a kid activity abuser.

WATCH ON FOX NATION: MENENDEZ BROTHERS: VICTIMS OR VILLAINS?

Lyle Menendez, left, and his relative Erik pictured successful their astir caller CDCR mugshots, taken connected Oct. 10, 2024. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

Prosecutors astatine proceedings convinced nan jurors successful 1995 that nan motive was greed, not fearfulness for their lives, but coming time Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon said Thursday he would inquire a judge to trim their sentences, clearing nan measurement to imaginable merchandise from prison.

MENENDEZ BROTHERS PROSECUTOR ANNOUNCES RESENTENCING DECISION

"After very observant reappraisal of each nan arguments… I came to a spot wherever I judge that, nether nan law, resentencing is appropriate, and I americium going to urge that to a tribunal tomorrow," Gascon told reporters Thursday afternoon.

An undated photograph of nan Menendez family arsenic it appears on-screen during a sheet astatine CrimeCon 2024 successful Nashville, Tennessee, connected June 2. The brothers Lyle and Erik were convicted of fatally shooting their parents successful 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)

A judge has to o.k. his caller proposal earlier it goes to nan authorities parole board, which must past schedule hearings wrong six months. If nan parole committee approves their release, past Gov. Gavin Newsom has last say.

LETTER AT CENTER OF MENENDEZ BROTHERS' BID FOR FREEDOM CALLED INTO QUESTION

Kitty Menendez's relative and sister, now some successful their 90s, are connected other sides successful their nephews' conflict for freedom.

Joan Andersen VanderMolen, sister of Kitty Menendez, speaks arsenic family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez, nan Beverly Hills brothers convicted of sidesplitting their parents, clasp a property convention astatine nan Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center successful Los Angeles, California, U.S., October 16, 2024.   (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

Milton Andersen, 90, vehemently opposes a reduced condemnation and connected Wednesday asked nan judge overseeing nan lawsuit to support his nephews successful situation for nan remainder of their lives.

Joan Andersen VanderMolen, 92, is among 2 twelve relatives who person publically called for nan brothers' release.