Menendez brothers prosecutor announces resentencing decision

Los Angeles' apical bull says he has reached a determination connected whether his agency will activity a reduced condemnation for nan Menendez brothers.

Erik and Joseph "Lyle" Menendez ambushed their parents pinch shotguns successful nan surviving room of their Beverly Hills mansion successful 1989.

Their first proceedings ended successful a mistrial. They were some convicted aft their 2nd proceedings and sentenced to life successful situation without nan anticipation of parole.

However, nether a caller California law, territory attorneys person nan authority to petition caller sentences that were handed down earlier they took office.

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Erik Menendez (C) and his relative Lyle (L) are pictured connected Aug. 12, 1991 successful Beverly Hills.  (MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The brothers and their supporters, including 2 twelve relatives, petitioned Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon for a resentencing earlier this year, arguing that caller grounds shows nan brothers were sexually abused and molested by their father.

The caller grounds includes allegations made nationalist past twelvemonth that their begetter besides molested Roy Rossello, a erstwhile personnel of nan boy set Menudo, successful nan 1980s, and a missive that Erik Menendez wrote to his cousin, Andy Cano, which surfaced successful 2015, years aft nan latter's death.

Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez are serving life sentences aft being convicted of sidesplitting their parents. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via Associated Press)

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The day nan missive was written has been challenged by critics of nan brothers' imaginable release. The defense said he sent it to his relative 8 months earlier nan murders.

Gascon is up for reelection successful little than 2 weeks and faces a beardown situation from independent campaigner Nathan Hochman, a erstwhile national prosecutor. Critics person called his engagement successful nan high-profile lawsuit politically motivated. But location is besides immoderate nationalist support for nan brothers' merchandise aft a bid of caller documentaries attracted attraction to their case, including 1 connected FOX Nation.

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The brothers unloaded shotguns astatine their father, erstwhile RCA Records executive Jose Menendez, and their mother, Mary "Kitty" Menendez, while nan mates was watching TV astatine 10:30 p.m.

They ran retired of shells and had to spell extracurricular to get much successful bid to decorativeness disconnected their mother, who investigators said had humor connected nan bottommost of her shoes, indicating that she tried to flight aft nan shooting began.

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

Not each of nan brothers' family members support their release.

Kitty Menendez's brother, Milton Andersen, 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 – arsenic they were sentenced originally.

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"It’s Milton Andersen’s continued belief that nan claims of molestation were made up, and they were false, and he believes that nan correct verdict was issued by nan assemblage and nan correct condemnation was besides committed," his lawyer Kathleen Cady told Fox News Digital.

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