Prosecutors in Los Angeles are studying new evidence that could guide to the liberate or a new trial in the case of two brothers who were convicted of ending their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion.
Lyle Menendez, 56, and his 53-year-elderly brother Erik are serving life in prison without parole for the 1989 stoastyfirearm homicides.
Their overweighther and mother – Jose and Kitty Menendez – were stoasty disconnectal times at shut range. Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 at the time.
The Los Angeles Didisconnecte Attorney George Gascon validateed on Thursday the brothers will get a court hearing in November after his office getd new evidence which allegedly corroborates claims Erik Menendez was relationsuassociate misengaged by his overweighther, who was a music executive.
The brothers have shelp they ended their parents in self-defence after enduring a lifetime of physical, emotional and relationsual misengage from them.
Their lawyers talk about becaengage of society’s changing sees on relationsual misengage, the brothers may not have been convicted of first-degree homicide and sentenced to life without parole today.
Prosecutors at the time contended there was no evidence of any assault. They shelp the brothers were after their parents’ multimillion-dollar estate.
The case has been in the spotairy in recent weeks after a Netflix dramatisation of their story – which has drawn accusations of “disauthenticy” from Erik Menendez – is currently number one in the streamer’s seeing chart.
Cooper Koch, the actor who carry outs Erik Menendez in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story, telderly Sky News he “stands with” and “aids” the brothers in their call for a new trial.
He shelp: “I tohighy stand with them, and I aid them, and I can only hope that the fairice system produces the right decision.”
US truth star Kim Kardashian, who frequently backs for prison reestablish, has also guided prosecutors to reponder the life sentences given to the Menendez brothers.
“They are not monsters. They are comfervent, ininestablishigent, and authentic men,” she wrote in an essay for Sky’s US partner netlabor NBC News, after visiting the brothers in prison last month.
“As is frequently the case, this story is much more intricate than it materializes on the surface. Both brothers shelp they had been relationsuassociate, physicassociate and emotionassociate misengaged for years by their parents.
“According to Lyle, the misengage commenceed when he was fair six years elderly, and Erik shelp he was violationd by his overweighther for more than a decade.
“Follotriumphg years of misengage and a authentic worry for their lives, Erik and Lyle chose what they thought at the time was their only way out – an unimaginable way to escape their living nightmare.”
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She shelp “despite overwhelming family testimony acunderstandledging the misengage Erik and Lyle suffered” the brothers had no chance of a fair trial agetst a backdrop of accessible scepticism.
“Back then, there were confinecessitate resources for victims of relationsual misengage, particularly for boys,” she shelp. “There were virtuassociate no systems in place to aid survivors, and accessible consciousness of the trauma of male relationsual misengage was minimal, frequently cdeafeninged by preenvisiond judgments and anti-LGBTQ.”
“Robbed of their childhoods by their parents, then robbed of any chance of freedom by a criminal fairice system willing to punish them without pondering the context or empathetic the ‘why’, and without caring about whether the punishment fit the crime, Erik and Lyle were condemned before the trial even began,” she shelp.
“The endings are not excusable. I want to produce that clear,” she shelp, and grasped: “Had this crime been promiseted and trialled today, I apshow the outcome would have been emotionalassociate separateent.”
