After addressing the latest round of legal barriers, the Los Angeles judge plans to hold a hearing next week to decide whether Lyle and Erik Menendez should be eligible for release after falling three decades behind.
The long-awaited resentment hearing was first scheduled for December and then repeatedly postponed on May 13 and 14, and will now be held within two days.
The brother’s family members have once again arranged to go to Los Angeles to conduct a lawsuit. Others, including incarcerated and correctional officers, are also planned to be there, and testify there to prove that the brothers have recovered and no longer represent danger to the community.
The Menendez Brothers have been in jail since the spring of 1990, when they were arrested and charged with killing their parents last summer. The brothers broke into the nest of a family home in Beverly Hills, California, and killed their parents with shotguns while the couple watched TV and ate ice cream.
The country is fascinated by the fact that it happens in such a wealthy exclusive community. The case was never completely bound to the state consciousness and maintained through the treatment of numerous dramatic and documentary films.
During their trial, the brothers insisted that their father, Jose Menendez, had suffered sexual abuse over the years and their mother, Kitty Menendez, was accomplice because she knew the abuse and did nothing to stop it. They said they killed out of fear of their lives, fearing that their parents would kill them first to prevent the disclosure of family secrets.
In their first trial, the brothers tried together but were held separately with the jury. The judge provided a wide range of latitudes to the defense to provide testimony and evidence about sexual abuse, and the trial was televised to audiences across the country. Each jury was in a deadlock and a false trial was announced.
In the years since the conviction, the brothers seemed to have exhausted all legal avenues to examine their cases. Then, last fall, after two new shows (drama series and documentary by producer Ryan Murphy) appeared on Netflix.
Meanwhile, a social media campaign organized by young people represents the brothers who believe evidence of sexual abuse should be a relief factor in trial pressure on officials to reconsider the case.
Last fall, then Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón asked the court to be skeptical of the brothers and feel resentful of the possibility of parole. Since the brothers were younger than 25 at the time of the crime, the judgment Mr. Gasco sought would immediately meet parole.
Mr. Gascon was then taken to Nathan J. in the November election by Nathan J.
Mr. Hockman had a very different view of the Menandes brothers, who opposed resentment against them, saying they failed to show “full insight” into the crime. Specifically, he said Lyle, 57, and Erik, 54, never rejected their arguments of self-defense as an action, while Mr. Hockman called it a lie.
Mr. Hockman attempted to withdraw Mr. Gascon’s petition for resentment, but Judge Jesus rejected his request. On Friday, Mr. Hawkman again asked the court to allow his office to withdraw the petition based on new information about brothers’ hiking incarceration, according to the state’s parole board’s recently completed report. The report was the governor representing Gavin Newsom, who considered the brothers’ leniency.
Mr. Hockman said in court that the report cites the brothers’ rules that violated the law, including using a cell phone.
However, Judge Yesnick said the report was still under seal and did not contain much new information, denied Mr. Hodgman’s motion to withdraw the petition.
Given Mr Hodgman’s position, the proceedings became increasingly reversed, and brother lawyers briefly tried to withdraw the case to the District Attorney’s Office in the case. But Mark Geragos, the attorney for one of the brothers, filed the request Friday for the relocation lawsuit.
