Menendez brothers' bid to be freed: Where does their resentencing effort stand?

Erik and Lyle Menendez’s efforts to reduce their life-without-parole prison terms remain in limbo after the ouster earlier this month of Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor, who recommended a new sentence that could clear the way for the brothers’ release.

Erik and Lyle Menendez’s efforts to reduce their life-without-parole prison terms remain in limbo after the ouster earlier this month of Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor, who recommended a new sentence that could clear the way for the brothers’ release.

But those efforts will inch forward Monday when the siblings appear for a status conference to determine if a Dec. 11 resentencing hearing should remain on the schedule, a lawyer for the brothers told NBC News.

Defense attorney Mark Geragos told NBC Los Angeles that Erik and Lyle will appear remotely from the San Diego prison where they are incarcerated.

The brothers have served 35 years for the shotgun murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, at the family’s Beverly Hills home on Aug. 20, 1989.

Last month, outgoing Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said he supported reducing their sentences to 50 years to life — a reduction that would make them eligible for parole immediately.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/menendez-brothers-free-resentencing-rcna181428

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