Los Angeles County DA to decide on Menendez brothers' resentencing within 10 days
LA County DA George Gascón told NBC News Wednesday he hopes to make a decision within 10 days about whether to recommend a resentencing for the Menendez brothers.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón told NBC News on Wednesday he hopes to make a decision within 10 days about whether to recommend resentencing for the Menendez brothers — and that, if he does, it’s possible they could be out of prison by the end of the year.
“It will be up to the court to decide which way they want to go, but it’s possible they could be,” Gascón said in an interview at the Los Angeles Hall of Justice shortly after a news conference by Menendez family members, who are calling for the brothers' release.
“If in fact they have rehabilitated as we are being told, which is what we’re reviewing, then I don’t believe they should spend the rest of their life in prison,” he added.
Erik and Lyle Menendez are serving life sentences without parole for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home.
More than a dozen relatives of the brothers argue that not only have they served their time behind bars but that the original case did not properly weigh their allegations that their father sexually and physically abused them.
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