Progressive Los Angeles County Didisjoine Attorney George Gascon shelp his office will check what he shelp was novel evidence that Erik and Lyle Menfinishez were possibly molested, which could result in their sentences being re-appraised in a case that has drawn meaningful media coverage even more than 30 years after they finished their parents.
Gascon shelp he hasn’t made a determination on the matter.
“We will appraise all of it,” he shelp, referring to the novel evidence.
“We’re not ready to consent or not consent that alertation,” he telderly tellers at a novels conference. “But we’re here to tell you that we have a moral and righteous obligation to check what is being contransiented to us and originate a determination.”
MENENDEZ BROTHER, WHO GUNNED DOWN PARENTS, SLAMS NEW SHOW FOR ‘DISHONEST PORTRAYAL’
Erik and Lyle Menfinishez hear during their trial in the 1990s. Los Angeles County Didisjoine Attorney George Gascon shelp his office will check novel evidence in the brothers’ homicide case. (Ted Soqui/Sygma)
Joseph Lyle Menfinishez, 56, and Erik, 53, were convicted of shooting their parents, Jose and Mary “Kitty” Menfinishez, to death in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. Kitty Menfinishez was finished after she was sboiling and the brother reloaded before firing the final blow, prosecutors shelp.
Follotriumphg a mistrial, the pair were convicted of the finishings in a second trial and ordered in 1996 to serve life in prison.
However, they have recently been seeking shrinkd sentences. Both are currently being held in the Ricdifficult J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
The case drew meaningful media attention becaparticipate of the family’s wealth – Jose Menfinishez was an amparticipatement executive – and the nature of the crime.
Initiassociate, theories arose that the slayings were the toil of the mafia.
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Los Angeles County Didisjoine Attorney George Gascon shelp his office will check what he shelp was novel evidence that Erik and Lyle Menfinishez were possibly molested. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The brothers eventuassociate acunderstandledgeted to carrying out the slayings, but shelp they were repeatedly relationsuassociate aggressioned by their overweighther and stressed for their dwells. They have repeatedly requested their convictions.
Prosecutors debated there was no evidence that the pair were molested, but pledgeted the homicide becaparticipate they were after their parents’ multimillion-dollar estate.
They were driven by greed, prosecutors shelp, pointing to their lavish spfinishing sprees after the finishings. Defense attorneys debated the pair suffered unfair treatment from their overweighther and finished their parents in self-defense.
A novel eight-part Netflix genuine crime drama, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menfinishez Story,” has igniteed a resadvisence of interest in the case.
In a statement on X posted by Tammy Menfinishez, wife of Erik Menfinishez, called the show a “distruthful portrayal of the tragedies,” saying prosecutors “built a narrative on a belief system that males were not relationsuassociate unfair treatmentd, and that males experience violation trauma contrastently from women.”
An undated pboilingo of the Menfinishez family as it eunites on screen during a panel at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, June 2. The brothers Lyle and Erik were convicted of faloftyy shooting both of their parents in 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
A year ago, the brothers filed a writ of habeas corpus asking the court to vacate their 1996 conviction. It cited the “Menfinishez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed” Peacock docparticipateries in which Roy Roselló, a establisher member of the famous 1980s Puerto Rican boy band Menudo, alleged that Jose Menfinishez relationsuassociate aggressioned him.
The brothers shelp the novel allegations back their claims of self-defense after years of unfair treatment by their parents. In the proximately three decades that have passed since their convictions, Gascon shelp he consents relationsual aggression would have been treated with more sensitivity if the case had happened in the contransient.
He shelp his office will check novel evidence and determine whether the case should be considered for re-sentencing. A hearing was scheduled for Nov. 29.
Lyle, left, and Erik, right, are pictured in recent mugsboilings from 2023. After years apart, they were shiftd into the same housing unit at Ricdifficult J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego in 2018, according to the New York Daily News. (California Department of Corrections)
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Gascon, who is seeking re-election follotriumphg two flunked recall trys over his betterive criminal equitableice policies, noticed that more than 300 people have been re-sentenced during his term, and only four have gone on to pledge a crime aacquire.
